1888 – Emile Berliner demonstrated his flat disc audio recording and reproduction in a lecture he gave to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which was printed in the institute’s Journal (vol. 125, no. 60).
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1938 – Birthday of Ivan Sutherland, Inventor and Developer of Interactive Computer Graphics
Ivan Sutherland was the inventor and developer of MIT’s Sketchpad, which launched the interactive computer graphics field. Sketchpad’s many innovations included a display file for screen refresh, a recursively traversed hierarchical structure for modeling graphical objects, recursive methods for geometric transformations, and an object-oriented programming style. In 1968 he co-founded Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation and was vice president and chief scientist. He also served as chairman of the computer science department at Caltech from 1976 to 1980. In 1980, he left Caltech to establish consulting firm Sutherland, Sproull and Associates. He also founded Advanced Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm.
1939 – The National Broadcasting Company televised the first sporting event, the second game of a doubleheader baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. About 400 TV sets were capable of receiving the broadcast. Princeton won 2-1 in the 10th.
1946 – At the meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, now IEEE) in San Francisco, Jack Mullin demonstrated the world’s first professional-quality tape recorded in the US.
1960 – First Laser Created
Physicist Theodore Maiman creates the first laser light, using a synthetic-ruby crystal device. He was not the first to develop the theories behind lasers nor first to apply for patents, but he was the first to create an operating laser device. The light produced by this device was not a true beam as we think of most lasers today but rather a pulse. Other researchers would create the first laser beam soon after.
1992 – The space shuttle Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
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