Category Archives: This day in information

This day in information: Film

Posted on September 13, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1898, the Reverend Hannibal Goodwin was granted a patent for his invention (in 1887) of a method for making transparent, flexible film.

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This day in information: Software bugs

Posted on September 9, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1947,  operators of the Mark II traced the cause of the computer’s malfunction to a moth caught in a relay and wrote in their logbook “First actual case of bug being found.”

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This day in information: Television

Posted on September 7, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth, 21, succeeded in transmitting through purely electronic means an image of a line with a device he called an “image dissector.” Today in 1957, the original version of the animated NBC peacock logo, used … Continue reading →

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