1802 – The Puffing Devil Steam
Engine Patent
Richard
Trevithick and Andrew Viviane of Camborne Parish in the Country of Cornwall,
enrolled a patent for a steam engine that could power a full-sized road
locomotive. He had previously demonstrated it by driving up a hill in a car he
called the “Puffing Devil”.
1896 – A.S. Popov made the first radio
transmission in human history. Popov is said to have transmitted the words
“Heinrich Hertz” from one building to another on the campus of St. Petersburg
University, though the assertion was not published until years later because of
the need for military secrecy.
1959 – TI Demonstrates
Integrated Circuit Invented by Jack Kilby
Texas
Instruments demonstrates the first integrated circuit. Its inventor, Jack Kilby
(b. Nov 8, 1923), created the device to prove that resistors and capacitors
could exist on the same piece of semiconductor material. His circuit consisted
of a silver of germanium with five components linked by wires. It was
Fairchild’s Robert Noyce, however, who filed for a patent within months of
Kilby and who made the IC a commercially viable technology. Both men are
credited as co-inventors of the IC.
2001 – Mac OS X is Born
Mac OS X
10.0, the first public version of Mac OS X, is released. The code name for this
release was Cheetah, although Apple did not start using the code names for
marketing purposes until Mac OS X 10.3, Jaguar.
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