On this edition of “This Week in Tech History”, Chris tells us of the beginning of the age of the Jumbo Jet, with the inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 aircraft.
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This week in 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, the same day as Elisha Gray.
1938 – BBC Television produced the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a Polish play, that coined the term “robot”.
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1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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1969 – The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight. The milestone ushered in the age
of the jumbo jet.
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1997 – After a two-day chase, space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts hauled the Hubble Space Telescope aboard to begin a $350 million refurbishment to increase the performance of the telescope.
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And this week in 1998 – AOL raised its monthly flat access rate from $19.95 to $21.95, explaining it needed to upgrade its network to handle the onslaught of people taking advantage of its flat price.