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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