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In 1937 – North Pole-1 became the first scientific research station to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. The Soviet Union established it about 20 km from the North Pole. It operated for 9 months, and travelled 2,850 kilometres. In 1952 – IBM announced the Model 701, the first computer designed...
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane and Jason Howell Why Yahoo won’t screw up Tumblr, Google Hangout deleted Google Voice, what Microsoft will announce Tuesday, and more. Guests: Dan Patterson Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out the full show notes for today’s episode....
Continue Reading »In 1875 – 17 nations (including the US) signed the ‘Convention du Mètre’ in Paris, France, establishing the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. In 1891 – The first public demonstration of a prototype Kinetoscope was given at Edison’s laboratory for approximately 150 members of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. The New York...
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This past weekend, Josh Lawrence and I went down to San Jose for the Nebula Awards. While there, we interviewed several attendees, including Kim Stanley Robinson, Gene Wolfe, and Joe Haldeman. Those interviews will be coming up as podcasts soon, so stay tuned! Best Novel winner Kim Stanley Robinson with Joe Haldeman. In the...
Continue Reading »In 1857 – William Francis Channing of Boston, Mass. and Moses Gerrish Farmer, of Salem, Mass. received the first U.S. patent for an “electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph for cities” (No. 17,355). In 1961 – Venera 1 became the first manmade object to fly-by another planet by passing within 100,000 KM of Venus. The probe...
Continue Reading »In 1923 – The first patent application for the rotary-dial telephone was submitted in France by Antoine Barnay. In 1969 – Apollo 10 launched, completing all the stages of a moon landing mission without landing on the Moon. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford descended in the Lunar Module to within 15KM of the...
Continue Reading »Celebrated author and book critic Lev Grossman answered your questions about The Magicians, and we kicked off our “laser” pick, Hyperion by Dan Simmons! Download the episode here. Subscribe to the video encores as a podcast, and in iTunes! And of course get all the show notes at the original post from last year.
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr, Congress targets Google Glass, but hey apps! The CW comes to Apple TV, and more. Guests: Shannon Morse and Len Peralta Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tnt. Submit and vote on story coverage at technewstoday.reddit.com. Check out...
Continue Reading »In 1902 – While going through objects recovered by divers near Antikythera off the coast of Greece, archaeologist Valerois Stais discovered a strange device with gear-wheels inside. The Antikythera mechanism have been puzzling investigators for over a hundred years. In 1943 – The U.S. Army and the University of Pennsylvania signed a contract to...
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