1714 – Henry Mill patented a machine for
transcribing letters “one after another, as in writing.” Sadly, he died before
he perfected the first typewriter.
1839 – Louis Daguerre made the first announcement of his photographic system at the Academie des Sciences in Paris, though details were not presented until August of that year.
1943 – Nikola Tesla Passed
Away
Born in
1856, Nikola Tesla was the inventor of alternating current. Tesla even worked
for Edison from 1882 to 1886. He then started the Tesla Electric Light &
Manufacturing company in where he worked more on AC electricity.
This started the “War of Currents”, which we talked about on
January 3rd when Edison electrocuted Topsy, the Elephant.
Tesla was also known for many patents and inventions,
including the Telsa coil, Electro-magnetic motor, incandescent electric light,
electric railway system and many more. He was known for X-Rays, radio, the
remote control and wireless communications.
1954 – In New York at IBM headquarters, IBM
and Georgetown University showed off their joint project on machine
translation. More than 60 sentences were translated from Russian to English
using eight grammar rules.
1963 – Ivan Sutherland
Introduces the Sketchpad
Ivan
Sutherland introduces the Sketchpad submitting his PhD thesis to MIT. The Sketchpad,
one of the earliest programs for the TX-0, allowed direct manipulation of
objects on a computer screen. Using the Sketchpad, a user could create and
manipulate graphical figures with a light pen. This considered one of the
seminal papers in computer science.
1968 – The Last Surveyor
Launches
Surveyor
7 lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. Surveyor 7 was the seventh
and last lunar Lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore
the surface of the Moon.
2003 – Apple released the public beta of its new browser, called Safari.
2016 – the 49th Mersenne prime
was discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri as
part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime search. It was written as
2^74,207,281-1.
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