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First Showing of Commercial Motion Pictures
Today in 1894, the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures in history was given in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes. Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing … Continue reading
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How Google Glass Works (Infographic)
Source: Martin Missfeldt
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What’s the Greatest Invention of the 20th Century?
Today in 1827, English pharmacist John Walker sold the first friction matches, which he called “Friction Light,” from his pharmacy in Stockton on Tees. The previous year, Walker discovered through lucky accident that a stick coated with chemicals burst into flame when scraped across … Continue reading
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First 3-D Movie in Color from a Major Studio
60 years ago today, Warner Bros.’s House of Wax premiered nationwide. The film was the first 3-D color feature from a major American studio, and premiered just two days after Columbia Pictures’s Man in the Dark, the first 3-D feature released by … Continue reading
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First 3-D Movie from a Major Studio
60 years ago today, Columbia Pictures premiered the first 3-D movie produced and released by a major studio, Man in the Dark, at the Globe Theater in New York City. The unexpected success of the previous year’s Bwana Devil in 3-D sparked a stampede … Continue reading
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Disk Drive Manufacturers: And Then There Were Three…
storagenewsletter.com has assembled a list of 218 manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD) that have entered this market since the disk drive was introduced by IBM in 1956. Today, only three remain: Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital.
Netscape Launched
Today in 1994, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications Corporation. Their mission was “to be the premier provider of open software that enables people and companies to exchange information and conduct commerce over the Internet and other global networks.” The … Continue reading
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First Mobile Phone Call, 1973
Forty years ago today (April 3, 1973), Martin Cooper made a phone call from a prototype Dyna-Tac handheld cellular phone. The phone, which weighed about 2.5 lb, connected Cooper to Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. Update: From “8 Guys, 6 … Continue reading
First General-Purpose Computer Proposed
Seventy years ago today (April 2, 1943), John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania submitted a proposal for building an “electronic calculator” to the U.S. Army’s Ballistics Research Laboratory. The contract was … Continue reading
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