1837 – The US Patent Office approved Thomas
Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling machinery
by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.”We’d call it an electric motor.
1925 – First Check
Photographing Device Patented
The first
bank check photographing device patent is issued in the US to its inventor,
George McCarthy, who called it the Checkograph. The machine photographed checks
onto 16mm motion picture film using a conveyor belt. The Kodak company bought
this invention in 1928 and marketed it under its Recordak division.
1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of
Washington, DC became the first holder of a television license from the Federal
Radio Commission.
1930 – A US patent for a photographing
apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It
was the first bank check photographing device.
1999 – Gigabyte, Female Hacker
of Sharpei, C#
Microsoft’s newest programming language at the time – C# (pronounced
“C-Sharp”) was hacked on this day. The perpetrator was a seventeen year old
female hacker from Belgium, calling herself “Gigabyte”.
2002 – Gigabyte posts the source code to the
virus on her website. Kim Vanvaeck would be arrested in 2004 for writing the
malicious code. The reason why she did it?
2010 – Apple Sells 10
Billionth Song
Apple
announces that its has sold its ten billionth song through its iTunes Store.
The ten billionth song, “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash, was
purchased by Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia, whom Apple awarded a US$10,000
iTunes Gift Card. It took Apple over five years to sell its first five billion
songs but only a year and a half to sell its second five billion songs.
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