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This Day in Geek History: November 11

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1572
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe begins recording his observations of a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia. For two weeks, it will be brighter than any other star in the sky, even remaining visible during the day. It will remain visible to the naked eye for another six months, until March 1574. Brahe will later publish his observations in the book De Nova Stella, which will be the origin of the the word “nova.”

1647
Massachusetts passes the first compulsory school attendance law in the U.S.

1675
Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time by finding the area under the graph of the y = f(x) function.
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Geek Quote of the Day

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The Internet does matter, but we simply don’t know how it matters. This fact, paradoxically, only makes it matter even more: The costs of getting it wrong are tremendous.

      - The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov, 2011.

Geek Media Round-Up: November 9, 2011

Nov 10 2011 No Comment  89 views

Art

Balrog Pumpkin

  • The 11 Faces Of Doctor Who
  • Angry Birds posters.
  • Balrog Pumpkin
  • Bloopsie recently released a batch of minimalist posters depicting Marvel’s most popular characters.
  • This real life Yuri Garagin Statue looks like something out of a science fiction movie.

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This Day in Geek History: November 10

Nov 10 2011 7 Comments  247 views

1882
Alexander Graham Bell is granted U.S. citizenship by the Supreme Court after his second application.

1951
A trial run of long distance customer dialing is offered in Englewood, New Jersey. It’s the very first direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service in the United States. To inaugurate the service, Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood calls Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, California. They begin to talk just eighteen seconds after dialing. Before the service, coast-to-coast calls could only be placed by long-distance operators. To facilitate the change, three digits are added to phone numbers.

1954
IBM publicly announces the specifications for the first scientific programming language, FORTRAN (FORmula TRANSlation). [1]

1961
Neil Armstrong sets a new speed record speed in an X-15 rocket plane, at 6,587km/h. Visit the X-15′s official website.
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This Day in Geek History: November 10

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1882
Alexander Graham Bell is granted U.S. citizenship by the Supreme Court after his second application.

1951
A trial run of long distance customer dialing is offered in Englewood, New Jersey. It’s the very first direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service in the United States. To inaugurate the service, Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood calls Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, California. They begin to talk just eighteen seconds after dialing. Before the service, coast-to-coast calls could only be placed by long-distance operators. To facilitate the change, three digits are added to phone numbers.

1961
Neil Armstrong sets a new speed record speed in an X-15 rocket plane, at 6,587km/h. Visit the X-15′s official website.
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Geek Quote of the Day

Nov 10 2011 No Comment  6 views

Today’s battle is not between David and Goliath; it’s between David and David Letterman. While we thought the Internet might give us a generation of “digital renegades,” it may have given us a generation of “digital captives,” who know how to find comfort online, whatever the political realities of the physical world.

      - The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov, 2011.

This Day in Geek History: November 9

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1842
The first U.S. design patent is issued for printing typefaces and borders to George Bruce of New York City. (US No. D1) This new form of patent was authorized by Act of Congress on August 29, 1842.

1904
The first airplane flight longer than five minutes occurs.

1921
Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect.
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This Day in Geek History: November 9

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1842
The first U.S. design patent is issued for printing typefaces and borders to George Bruce of New York City. (US No. D1) This new form of patent was authorized by Act of Congress on August 29, 1842.

1904
The first airplane flight longer than five minutes occurs.

1921
Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect.
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