In 1888 – George Eastman was issued U.S. patent No. 388,850 for his roll-film box camera. In 1956 – IBM introduced the IBM 350 Disk storage unit for the RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage. In 1998 – Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation of Google, allowing...

In 1930 – An experimental electric engine was put in service by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad between Hoboken and Montclair, NJ. Thomas Edison served as engineer at the throttle. In 1976 – Viking 2 landed on Mars and began taking high resolution pictures, measuring the atmosphere and surface, and look for evidence...

In 1859 – A unique combination of solar events including a magnetic explosion severely affected the young telegraph network in North America and Europe. Wires shorted out, fires started and some machines reportedly worked even when disconnected from batteries. 1997 – IBM announced that its RS/6000 SP model parallel supercomputer, was now 58 percent...

In 1902 -Georges Méliès’ Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) debuted in France. It is often considered the first real science fiction film. In 1994 – The United States Library of Congress held the first of several meetings to plan the conversion of its materials to digital form to make...

1897 – Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera, the forerunner of the motion picture film projector. In 1994 – Stockholders approved the merger of Aldus Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. It united the two driving forces behind desktop publishing software. Aldus Pagemaker became Adobe Pagemaker. In 1997 – The developer release...