In 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company merged with its subsidiary and took its name, International Business Machines Corporation AKA IBM. In 1989 – The Department of Defense got the first of 24 satellites that will make up the global positioning system put into orbit. In 2011 IBM’s Watson, an AI computer system competed against...

In 1895 – French patent No. 245,032 was issued for appareil servant à l’obtention et à la vision des épreuves chrono-photographiques, AKA the Cinématographe, a combined motion-picture camera and projector. In 1946 – ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) the first practical, all-electronic computer was unveiled at the Univ. of Pennsylvania’s Moore School...

In 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for the first time in public at the Salem Lyceum Hall. The demonstration ended with the sending of the first telephone news dispatch which was received by the Boston Globe. In 1973 – Along Interstate 71 in Ohio, the first metric distance road signs to...

In 1847 – Proud parents Samuel and Nancy welcomed their seventh and last child into the world. Thomas Edison would grow up to embody the word inventor. 1970, With the launch of Osumi 5, Japan became the fourth country (after the US, USSR and France) to place a satellite into orbit. In 1997 –...

In 1958 – Scientists at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT bounced radar signals off the planet Venus, calling it the first measurement of interplanetary distances. In 1996 – Chess’s international grandmaster Garry Kasparov began a six game match against IBM’s Deep Blue. Deep Blue won the first game the first time that a current world...