In 1860 – Parisian typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s uses his Phonoautogram to record sound onto paper but has no way to pay it back. In 1919 – Presper Eckert was born in Philadelphia. Eckert became famous for his work, with John Mauchly on the ENIAC project. In 1959 – NASA publicly...

In 1953 – The major studios were inspired by the 1952 3D hit Bwana Devil. Columbia beat Warner Brothers’ House of Wax to the theatre to make Man in the Dark the first 3D motion picture produced and released by a major studio. In 1959 – The Department of Defense called a meeting at...

In 1927 – The Bell System sent live TV images of Herbert Hoover, then the Secretary of Commerce, over telephone lines from Washington, D.C. to an auditorium in Manhattan. It was the first public demonstration in the U.S. of long-distance television transmission. In 1964 – IBM unveiled the System/360 line of mainframe computers, its...

In 1965 – Hughes Aircraft’s Early Bird launched into orbit. It was the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit and successfully demonstrated the concept of synchronous satellites for commercial communications. In 1973 – NASA launched the Pioneer 11 spacecraft, the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and...