1910 – Dr. Hawley Crippen was arrested when the boat he was on docked in Quebec. He was the first person to be caught as a result of a wireless telegraph. In 1971 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin became the first humans to take a drive on the Moon in...

1889 – Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia. He would go on to earn the title “Father of Television” (one of several called that) for his work on the iconoscope and the kinescope. He worked on television for RCA. In 1898 – The Winton Motor Carriage Company placed a magazine advertisement in Scientific American...

In 1947 – ENIAC was switched on after being transferred to the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. It operated continuously until October 2 1955. In 1951 – A recording was made of Beethoven’s 9th by EMI that eventually became used to justify the diameter of the CD. In 1958 – President Eisenhower signed the National...

In 1858 – The first use of fingerprints as identification took place in India. William James Herschel, magistrate of Nuddea, India requested local businessman Rajyadhar Konai make a hand print on the back of a contract. Herschel wanted to “frighten out of all thought of repudiating his signature.” In 1997 – Dell announced...