1860 – A French inventor made the oldest known recording of an audible human voice, when he recorded himself singing a French folksong on his phonautograph machine.
1892 – Voters in Lockport, NY became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360 mainframe computer systems. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific
And this week in 1984 – Challenger astronauts made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning a healthy Solar Max satellite to space. The orbiting sun watcher had been circling the Earth for three years with all circuits dead before repairs were made.
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