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Information Gets Wings (2)
Today in 1911, French pilot Henry Pequet, representing the Humber Motor Company of England at the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition in Allahabad, India, carried over 6,000 cards and letters on his Sommer biplane a distance of 13 km (8.1 miles) from Allahabad to Naini, India.
Information Gets Wings (1)
Today in 1911, Fred Wiseman delivered the first mail flown by an airplane. It took him two days to fly from Petaloma to Santa Rosa, California (which he never reached with his home-built airplane), carrying three letters from the mayor and … Continue reading
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Bell & Howell Incorporated
Today in 1907, Bell & Howell was founded by movie projectionist Daniel H. Bell and Albert S. Howell in Chicago, Illinois, as a manufacturer of motion picture cameras and projectors. Starting in 1923, Bell & Howell developed and sold the Filmo camera series, … Continue reading
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Computer Tape Automation Born
Fifty years ago today, IBM announced the Hypertape Automatic Cartridge Loader, the first device to permit automatic loading and unloading of magnetic tape for electronic computers. Ten years earlier, IBM introduced the magnetic tape drive vacuum column, making it possible for … Continue reading
Sound Recording Copyrights
Fifty years ago today, the Sound Recording Act of 1971 went into effect, extending federal copyright protection to sound recordings. A sound recording is a derivative work of the preexisting musical work, and to obtain a copyright in a sound … Continue reading
Posted in Copyrights, Economic Impact, Law, music, Social Impact, This day in information
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Online Love
“More singles met the last person they dated through an online dating site (21%) than anywhere else. Across all age groups, seven times as many singles met their last date online, compared to being set up by a relative.”–Match.com’s second … Continue reading
Posted in Social Impact, Statistics, The InfoStory Quant
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Cinematographe Patented
Today in 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière patented the Cinematographe, a device that recorded, developed, and projected films.
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Race Against the Machine
Today in 1996, Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion, Garry Kasparov, under regular time controls. “As technology continues to advance in the second half of the chessboard, taking on jobs and … Continue reading
Highlights of ComScore’s Summary of 2011 in Information
From comScore’s just-released 2012 U.S. Digital Future in Focus Social: Social Networking accounted for 16.6 percent of all online minutes at the end of 2011 and is on track to surpass Portals as the most engaging online activity in 2012. … Continue reading
Steve Jobs’ Legacy: The App Economy
“[The] App Economy now is responsible for roughly 466,000 jobs in the United States, up from zero in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced. This total includes jobs at ‘pure’ app firms such as Zynga, a San Francisco-based maker of Facebook game apps that went … Continue reading
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