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1844 – First
Telegraph Service Launched
Samuel Morse sends the first
telegraphic message over a line from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore. The
message, “What hath God wrought!” was transmitted to his partner, Alfred Vail,
who retransmitted the same message back to Morse. This formally opened
America’s first telegraph line, launching America’s first form of instant
communication in history. The biblical text was selected by Annie Ellsworth,
the teenage daughter of the U.S. Commissioner of Patents.
1935 – General Electric Co. sold the
first spectrophotometer. It could detect two million different shades of color
and make a permanent record chart of the results.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful
single rotor helicopter flight.
1961 – MIT’s
Clark Begins Work on LINC Computer
Wes Clark began his work on LINC,
or the Laboratory Instrument Computer, at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. His plan
was to create a computer for biomedical research, that was easy to program and
maintain, that could be communicated with while it operated, and that could
process biotechnical signals directly. Building on his previous experience in
developing the Whirlwind, TX-0, and other early computers, Clark set to work on
one of the earliest examples of a “user friendly” machine – setting the
standard for personal computer design in the following decades.
Quantum Computer Service was founded. Technically, it was a reorganization of Control Video Corporation, a company that started in 1983.The Company was selling online service “Gameline” to Atari 2600 users. You would pay $49.95 for the modern and also a one-time $15 setup fee. With the reorganization, Jim Kimsey became Chief Executive Officer and Marc Seriff took the CTO role. Ninety employees quit, ten remained. The company changed to sell Quantum Link for commodore 64 and 128 consoles. Eventually, they would get into AppleLink and PC Link. Quantum Computer Service eventually (October 1989) changed their name to America Online (AOL).
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