1826 – Internal Combustion Engine Patented
Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. However, he didn’t have a car to rev it in to impress the chicks.
1922 – Computer Pioneer Alan J. Perlis Born
Alan J. Perlis is born is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Perlis received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry (1942) from Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon University) and a PhD from MIT in 1950. Perlis went on to establish and head Carnegie’s Graduate Department of Computer Science. Longtime developers of programming language and techniques, as well as an educator, many of Perlis’ graduate students have become world leaders in Computer Science themselves. He taught at Carnegie, Purdue, and Yale over his career and is fondly remembered as the author of classic one-liners that grew into poems. He died in New Haven, Connecticut on February 7, 1990.
1976 – A is for Apple
The Apple Computer company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in order to sell their personal computer kits, later known as the Apple I computer, launching the personal computer, launching the personal computer revolution. From this point on, the word “Apple” is associated as much for computers as it is for fruit.
2004 – Gmail Invitation Only Beta
Google releases their Webmail service in “Gmail”. They release it as an invitation only beta. That would stay in effect until February 7, 2007.
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