In 1886 – The first alternating current power plant in the US was put into regular operation in Great Barrington, Massachusetts In 1937 – The first woman in space and only woman ever to fly solo in space, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl region of Russia. In 1992 – The first...

In 1975 – The Homebrew Computer Club, held its first meeting in a the garage of Gordon French in Menlo Park, California. 32 people showed up for the first meeting. John Draper, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were some of the more famous members of the club. In 1981 – Sinclair Research launched the...

In 1976 – The first Freon-cooled Cray-1 supercomputer was shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories, in New Mexico at a cost of $19,000,000. In 2000 – The Sony PlayStation 2 went on sale in Japan. In 2007 – Election Day was held in Estonia, and for the first time in the world, voters were allowed...

In 1847 – In Ediinburgh, Scotland, an expert vocal physiology and elocution welcomed his newborn son into the world. He was named after his father. Alexander Graham Bell would gon to become synonymous with the telephone. In 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary...

In 1908 – Gabriel Lippman proposed using a series of lenses at a picture’s surface instead of opaque barrier lines, allowing three dimensional pictures. He titled his presentation to the French Academy of Sciences “La Photographie Integral”. In 1983 – CBS Records launches the first major compact disc music marketing campaign, launching 16 titles....