//file author: a uwcse143 student JG 10/28/2002 //Source: "This day in Technolgoy History" htt://www.historychannel.com //Important Dates in Technlogy 2/3/1468 Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable type, dies 6/19/1623 Blaise Pascal born 1/4/1642 Isaac Newton's Birthday 7/1/1646 philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, who built a model of a calculating machine in 1673, is born 8/19/1662 Blaise Pascal dies 8/3/1753 Charles Stanhope, maker of calculator, born 4/27/1791 Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse code, is born 2/14/1819 Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, is born 1/3/1825 Opening Day at the First U.S. Engineering College, the Rensselaer School 7/23/1829 First U.S. patent of typewriter 1/6/1838 First Telegraph Demonstration 5/24/1844 Samuel Morse, inventor of Morse code and the electric telegraph, sent the first electric telegraph message in the United States 2/11/1847 Thomas Alva Edison's birthday 3/2/1847 Alexander Graham Bell is born 1/18/1854 Thomas Watson, Telephone Pioneer, Born 12/13/1854 Thomas Watson, telephone pioneer, born 1/28/1855 William Burroughs, Father of the Calculator, Born 2/22/1857 Heinrich Hertz, radio pioneer, is born 2/29/1860 Herman Hollerith, inventor of the tabulating machine, is born 8/22/1860 Paul Nipkow, television pioneer, is born 3/3/1863 National Academy of Sciences founded 10/18/1871 Thomas Edison dies 4/2/1872 Samuel Morse dies 8/26/1873 Lee DeForest, inventor of vacuum tube, is born 8/23/1875 Radio pioneer William Eccles is born 3/7/1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone 3/10/1876 First telephone call. Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant Thomas Watson. 2/12/1877 the first telephone news dispatch was called into the Boston Globe in Boston from Salem, Massachusetts, using equipment provided by Alexander Graham Bell 1/14/1878 First Private Telephone Call in UK 2/19/1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph 3/14/1879 Albert Einstein is born 12/3/1879 Edison demonstrates light bulb 1/27/1880 Thomas Edison patented the incandescent electric lamp 2/16/1880 First mechanical engineering society meets 6/1/1880 The first pay telephone service began 7/1/1881 International commercial telephone service 3/27/1884 First long-distance call 9/14/1886 Typewriter ribbon patented 6/8/1887 Hollerith patents calculator 5/16/1888 Inventor Emile Berliner demonstrated the first modern phonograph record 1/8/1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine 12/29/1891 Edison patents wireless radio 3/15/1892 First voting machines authorized 8/9/1892 Thomas Edison patents the two-way telegraph 3/9/1900 Howard Hathaway Aiken, developed the first fully automatic calculating machine, is born 1/29/1901 Allen Du Mont perfected the cathode-ray tube and manufactured the first commercially available television sets 9/6/1901 Ernst Weber, microwave pioneer, born 1/1/1902 First Demonstration of Radio Broadcasting 2/10/1902 Walter Brattain is born. One of the inventers of the transistor 3/20/1902 First mobile radio telephone demonstration 5/30/1902 Stubblefield demonstrates wireless radio 1/19/1903 First Transatlantic Radio Broadcast 1/7/1904 First International Radio Distress Signal Established 2/1/1904 First radio distress signal 3/28/1905 Radio fax patented 8/19/1906 Philo Farnsworth, television pioneer, is born 12/2/1906 Peter Goldmark, inventor of color television and LP albums, born 12/9/1906 Computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper was born 12/24/1906 The first radio program was broadcast 1/5/1909 Mathematician Stephen Kleene Born 2/13/1910 William Shockley is born. One of the inventers of the transistor 2/23/1910 First Morse code radio contest 3/27/1910 John Pierce, father of communication satellite, born 8/20/1911 the New York Times sent the first around-the-world telegram via commercial service 6/23/1912 Alan Turing born 1/25/1915 First Transcontinental Telephone Demonstration 2/7/1915 the first wireless message was sent from a moving train to a station 4/4/1915 Bell system engineers successfully established a one-way mobile telephone link 4/7/1915 Telecast of image and sound 7/14/1918 Jay Forrester, inventor of computer memory, born 1/2/1920 a successful biochemist and a major science-fiction writer, Isaac Asimov's Birthday 7/7/1920 First radio compass used by an airplane 8/2/1922 Alexander Graham Bell dies 3/12/1923 Movie with sound demonstrated 2/8/1924 First coast-to-coast radio broadcast 5/6/1925 Transpacific radio fax transmission 5/16/1925 Ground-to-air phone call 6/13/1925 The first telecast of a moving object showed a model windmill with rotating blades 7/25/1925 First 50,000-watt radio broadcast 8/25/1925 Miniature television tube patented 9/28/1925 Seymour Cray, computer pioneer, born 10/30/1925 John Baird transmits TV images 11/15/1926 NBC radio network begins broadcasts 1/13/1928 Experimental Television Sets Installed 5/28/1929 The first movie with sound and color debuted 6/27/1929 Color television demonstration 12/8/1929 The first ship-to-shore mobile telephone commercial service was launched 1/2/1936 Electron Tube Demonstration 10/22/1938 First copy made by xerography 11/15/1938 First live news broadcast 12/20/1938 Television pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, a Russian-born American engineer, patented two revolutionary devices that led to modern television 5/20/1939 Public telecast via telephone wires 3/1/1941 FM radio transmitter receives commercial license 1/10/1946 First Radar Signal to the Moon 2/14/1946 J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for the first time 6/4/1946 Radio fax to a moving train 6/17/1946 Mobile telephone commercial service 6/21/1948 First computer with stored memory 6/30/1948 Transistor demonstrated 5/6/1949 EDSAC, the first stored-program computer 7/10/1949 The first practical rectangular television was announced by the Kimble Glass Company of Toledo, Ohio. It sold for $12 6/25/1951 First color television broadcast 1/20/1953 First Telecast Transmitted to Canada 6/7/1954 British mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing died 4/18/1955 Albert Einstein dies 10/28/1955 Bill Gates' birthday 12/1/1955 The first remote-control railroad passenger car went into service 4/14/1956 First videotape recorder demonstrated 5/23/1956 General Electric unveiled the first automated factory machine to operate by remote control 6/19/1956 Thomas Watson, founder and head of IBM, dies 1/21/1957 First Nationally Televised Videotaped Broadcast 10/4/1957 Russia launched the world's first satellite, Sputnik 8/14/1959 Telecast from space showing the Earth 8/12/1960 Echo I, experimental communications satellite, launched 10/25/1960 The Accutron, the world's first electronic watch, went on sale 4/24/1962 Image transmitted by satellite 12/14/1962 First data transmitted from Venus 2/21/1963 First laser beam transmission of television programming 4/6/1965 First commercial satellite launched 10/14/1968 The first live telecast from space 1/3/1972 First Weekly Patent List 6/5/1977 Apple II released 1/5/1980 HP Introduces its First Computer 4/27/1981 Mouse introduced by Xerox 10/13/1982 Lotus 1-2-3 introduced 1/3/1983 Personal Computer Named Man of the Year 1/19/1983 Apple chairman Steve Jobs and president John Sculley announced the Apple Lisa 1/26/1983 Lotus 1-2-3 Released 1/2/1984 VHS Defeats Beta in the Battle for Videotape Standards 1/4/1984 Apple Takes a Bite out of Copyright Crime 1/22/1984 Macintosh 1984 Commercial Airs 1/24/1984 The first Macintoshes became available for a price of $2,495 4/24/1984 Apple introduces Apple Iic 7/2/1985 Windows is released 5/15/1990 Cray Research introduced a new, cheaper supercomputer 2/26/1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduces the Web browser 5/17/1991 World Wide Web released on CERN machines 1/1/1992 Grace Hopper, Computer Pioneer, Dies 1/15/1992 Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, released a simple line-mode Web browser on the Internet 1/5/1994 Apple announced its entry into the proprietary online system business 5/9/1994 James Clark introduces Mosaic 8/24/1995 Windows 95 released 1/9/1996 Sun Creates Java Division 7/23/1996 First high-definition digital television broadcast 1/2/1998 Microsoft Buys Hotmail 1/12/1998 HAL's Birthday