Today in Tech History – May 13, 2014

20140404-073853.jpgIn 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 WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

In 1958 – The trademark Velcro was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.

In 1976 – Atari released the video game Breakout giving the paddle controller something besides Pong to be useful for.

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