1905 – Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont,
Pennsylvania received a patent for the “Art of Transmitting Intelligence.” It was
the forerunner of the modern fax.
1935 – Robert Goddard launched the first rocket
equipped with gyroscopic controls near Roswell, New Mexico. The rocket reached
an altitude of 4,800 feet and flew 13,000 feet at a speed of 550 mph.
1979 – Meltdown of Three Mile
Island
At 4 PM EST, the nuclear reactors in
Middletown, PA (Dauphin County) experienced a partial meltdown rated a 5-of-7
on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Accident with wider consequences.
A stuck open pilot relief valve was to blame for the incident
in the primary system. The valve allowed for nuclear reactor coolant to escape
into the atmosphere. During the event, the EPA was dispatched where they took
daily samples of the air to make sure the levels were not harmful to the
community.
The evacuation of Middletown was ordered 28 hours later –
mostly women and children. Only half of the 663,500 population evacuated within
a 20 mile radius.
1986 – Computers Enter the
AIDS Research Arena
In one
of the earliest developments in treating the AIDS epidemic, which had only
recently begun making headlines, a team from Roche Laboratories in New Jersey
publishes an article in Science magazine that discussed the theoretical basis
for the HIV protease molecule. Designing molecules with which to target viruses
are one of the many ways pharmaceutical researchers have come to use computers.
1995 – Kodak Releases DC40
Kodak releases
the DC40 camera, which is only the second digital camera for the consumer
market. While introduced over a year after Apple’s QuickTake 100 camera, Kodak’s
marketing was largely responsible for popularizing digital photography.
2016 – The first Oculus Rift VR headsets for
consumers began being delivered. Co-founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the
first one the weekend before to Ross Martin in Alaska who had been the first to
pre-order.
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