Today in Tech History – February 26

1896 – Hoping to test the sun’s ability to create X-ray, Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. It was cloudy.

1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection and Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.

1966 – First Saturn 1B Rocket Launch

             The first Saturn 1B rocket is launched from Cape Canaveral. The Saturn 1B was primarily used for testing the Apollo spacecraft while the larger Saturn V rocket that was necessary for travel to the Moon was being developed. Later, after completion of the Moon landing program, The Saturn 1B was used for manned Skylab flights and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. In total, the Saturn 1B was launched 9 times with no failures.

1991 – Introduction of first Web Browser – WorldWideWeb

             Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Burners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.

2015 – The US FCC voted 3-2 to implement new Open Internet Rules and classify Internet Service Providers as telecommunications services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.   

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