In 1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada are auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more. In 1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur...

In 1973 – The United States launched Skylab, the country’s first space station as part of the Apollo space program. In 1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook. In 1992 – Texas Instruments decided to take on the...

In 1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In 1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air, making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became...

In 1936 – University of Washington education professor August Dvorak received a patent for his new more efficient keyboard layout. While widely recognised as superior to the QWERTY layout, the Dvorak keyboard is not widely used. In 1939 – The first appropriation was made to begin construction of the Harvard Mark I. When completed...