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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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Phototransistor Invented
Today in 1950, the invention of the phototransistor was announced by Bell Telephone Laboratories. This was a transistor operated by light rather than electric current, invented by Dr. John Northrup Shive. Last year,, Bob Metcalfe reviewed a new history of Bell Labs, The Idea … Continue reading
The Surui Cultural Map: Digital Preservation
The Surui Cultural Map shows the Surui tribe of the Amazon’s vision of their forest, including their territory and traditional history. To create this map, Surui youth interviewed their elders to document and map their ancestral sites, such as the … Continue reading
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The ‘Best Map Ever of the Universe’
The Atlantic: What does the universe look like? It looks, it turns out, a little something like the image above — a map that details what NASA is calling “the oldest light in our universe.” That light, the Cosmic Microwave Background, or … Continue reading
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