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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