The first electric shaver debuts, The US Navy launches a satellite to measure Earth, and the first web domain is registered… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1931 – Schick Dry Shaver, Inc, displayed the first electric shaver in Stamford, CT. This early electric razor did not meet widespread acceptance. […]
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This Week in Tech History: Introduction of the Compact Disc
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The telephone is patented, the Soviets prep for human spaceflight and a new storage technology makes its debut… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell ‘rang’ up a patent for his invention, the telephone. It was an invention, incidentally, that almost bankrupted his company in the […]
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Thomas Edison gives us a new way to hear music, a camera gives us instant pictures and the first American flies in space… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1878 – Thomas Edison, famed inventor – and subject of more This Week in Tech Histories than any other human being […]
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The first presidential photograph is snapped, a popular video sharing site is launched and Blu-Ray comes out on top… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week back in 1849 – The first photograph of a U.S. President was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. The subject of the famous picture […]
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This Week in Tech History: Apple Computer is Incorporated
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The first picture-in-picture TV is unveiled, the first electric watch is released, and a tech giant is incorporated… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1940 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static, and noise in thunderstorms, […]
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Edison shows off his new incandescent lighting, the “Man of the Year” is not a man at all, and the Internet as we know it, is created… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1879 – Thomas Edison delighted an audience in Menlo Park, New Jersey, when he gave his first […]
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A new television system was patented, the transistor was invented and nuclear power made its debut … It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1938 – Vladimir Zworykin of Wilkinsburg, PA patented the iconoscope television system. This was the first fully electronic system to replace the older mechanical systems that used […]
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The first powered airplane flight takes off, the last person walks on the moon and a flawed processor halts shipments of PCs… It all happened This Week in Tech History. 1903 – The first successful powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. First Orville, then Wilbur Wright kept their invention flying … […]
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This Week in Tech History: First Automatic Parking Garage
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The first theater to use electric lights opens, the first automatic parking garage opens, and the mother of all demos is given … It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1882 – The Bijou Theatre opened in Boston, MA and became the first theatre to be lighted by electricity, which Thomas […]
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Ford changes the manufacturing industry, the first successful video game is released and a popular video game console goes on sale… It all happened This Week in Tech History. 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduced the first moving assembly line and forever changed the manufacturing industry. Ford’s innovation reduced the time it took to build […]