1885
The first commercial motion-picture film is manufactured by the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company in Rochester, New York. It is the first film produced in continuous strips on reels.
1895
Charles Francis Jenkins receives a patent for The Phantoscope, an early motion picture projector that enlarges film images for group exhibitions. (US No. 536,569) It will first be demonstrated at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia in October. Armat will later sell the rights to his invention to Thomas Edison, and Edison use the device as the basis of the Vitascope projector.
1923
The BBC introduces a daily weather forecast. Visit the official BBC website.
1936
The first two hundred inch diameter reflecting mirror used in the construction of the Hale telescope is shipped from Corning, New York, to Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The lens alone weighs twenty tons.
1954
The United States detonates the second Hydrogen bomb in four weeks on Bikini Island in the Marshall Islands. The fifteen megaton bomb is 750 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast contaminates the neighboring island of Rongelap and exposes almost one hundred people on the island and other downwind atolls to radiation.
1958
The United States Army launches Explorer III satellite, America’s third successful satellite.
1969
The Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 is launched.
1975
The International Business Machines (IBM) Data Processing Division (DPD) introduces new versions of the IBM System/370 Models 158 and 168. Visit the official IBM website.
1976
The First Annual World Altair Computer Convention is held at the Airport Marina Hotel near Albuquerque, New Mexico, over three days. It is the first such convention for the microcomputer industry. Bill Gates will explain his position on software piracy in his opening address on March 27. Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the developer of the Altair 8800, was established in the southwestern city to develop its kit computer, which became a runaway hit among hobbyists after it was featured by Popular Mechanic magazine. In the hotel’s penthouse suite, the Processor Technology Corporation holds establishes a “booth” to promote their 4KB memory boards for the Altair.
1980
The European Space Agency (ESA) creates the French company Arianespace, the world’s first commercial space transportation company. Visit the official Arianespace website.
1981
The French newspaper Le Parisien Libere, one of the largest and most influential in France, publishes its first online edition on Teletel, videotex network.
1987
NASA launches the Fltsatcom-6 communications satellite for the U.S. Navy, but it fails to reach orbit when lightning strikes and destroys the rocket.
1989
The science fiction television series Quantum Leap premieres with the episode “Genesis” on the NBC network. The series follows the adventures of Dr. Sam Beckett, a scientist who has built a time travel device that allows him to travel through time by “leaping” into the bodies of people from the past. The series will run for ninety-six episodes over five seasons. TV.com entry
1990
The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Allegiance” first airs. (No. 318) In it, following a bout of strange behavior, the crew discovers that Picard has been replaced by an alien doppleganger. Memory Alpha entry
1994
A photo of the first moon discovered in orbit around an asteroid is released. The potato-shaped asteroid Ida and its newly-discovered moon, Dactyl, were imaged by the NASA Galileo spacecraft, about fourteen minutes before its closest approach to the asteroid on August 28, 1993. Ida is approximately thirty-six miles long and fourteen miles wide, and it is pocked with craters. Dactyl is about one mile (1.5km) wide. The moon is named for the Dactyli, a group of mythological beings who lived on Mount Ida, where they hid and protected Zeus as an infant.
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