1856 – Professor Hamilton
L. Smith of Gambier, Ohio received the first US patent for the tintype
photographic picture process. It described a method for “the obtaining of
positive impression upon a japanned surface previously prepared upon an iron or
other metallic or mineral sheet or plate by means of collodion and a solution
of a salt of silver.”
1878 – Thomas Edison
received a US patent (No. 200521) for the phonograph. His first recording was
of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” spoken into a large horn which transmitted
vibrations to a needle that cut the recording on a hand-rotated cylinder.
1946 – Alan Turing Presents the “Proposal for the
Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)
This research proposal was
presented to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Physical
Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, England, and approved at a second meeting held
a month later.
Turing based this research on von Neumann’s
“First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC.” He had studied it in summer 1945 when
he was recruited by J.R. Womersley to join the staff of the NPL.
1971 – First Warrant to Search Computer Data
The first warrant is issued to search a computer’s storage. This event
would lead to increasingly sophisticated method of encryption to hide computer
files from law enforcement agents.
1987 – In the Beginning Apple.com Was Created
The Internet domain apple.com is created. Note that this was a full 4
years before the World Wide Web was launched or Microsoft.com was registered …
I’m just sayin’.
1990 – John and Thomas
Knoll launched a small software package for manipulating images meant to be
bundled with scanners. It was called Photoshop.
2002 - Odyssey, the first
of six current operational Mars vehicles began its mission to map the planet.
2008 – HD DVD Surrenders
The “war” over the High Definition successor to the DVD ends when the
supporters of the HD DVD format discontinue it. The Sony-baked Blu-ray format
had garnered the support of many players in the industry, leading to the demise
of HD DVD.
2014 – Facebook announced
it was acquiring messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion.
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