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February 26, 2013
Tech History Today – Feb. 27, 2013
In 1891 – David Sarnoff was born near Minsk.. He would go on to befriend Marconi and rise to the Presidency of RCA and be integral in founding NBC.
In 1932 – English physicist James Chadwick published a letter on the existence of the neutron, some say giving birth to modern nuclear physics.
In 1986 – The United States Senate voted to allow its debates to be televised on a trial basis. The trial was successful.
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Tech News Today 698: What’s App.net?
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Mozilla wants fragmentation, Google fears Samsung, Opera joins the monoculture, and more.
Guest: Ken Ray
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Running time:: 0:50:17
February 25, 2013
Tech History Today – Feb. 26
In 1896 – Hoping to test the suns ability to create X-rays. Henri Becquerel placed a wrapped photographic plate in a closed desk drawer, with a phosphorescent uranium rocks laid on top. He left it in the drawer for several days until the sun came out. To his surprise images of the rocks appeared without the sun.
In 1909 – The first successful color motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
In 1935 – Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated Radio Detection And Ranging to Air Ministry officials at Daventry, England. This RADAR proved quite helpful a few years later when war broke out.
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Frame Rate 113: Nielsen to rate the Internet
Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
Oscars on Hulu and ABC.com, Nielsen TV rating for streaming, Intel and CBS online TV service, WebOS lives in LG TVs, and more.
Guest: Scott Wilkinson
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Running time:: 1:12:09
Tech News Today 697: A LIttle Palm in All of Us
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Google taking on Spotify? LG buys WebOS from HP, Samsung announces huge phone, and more.
Guest: Ron Richards
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Running time:: 0:49:13
February Book Club: Bridge of Birds Wrap-Up & Your Feedback!
It’s time to find out what everyone thought of Number Ten Ox, and check in on Goodreads for suggestions on good old-fashioned popcorn sci-fi and amateur cartography for our favorite fantasy realms. Enjoy!
More on our February pick, Bridge of Birds:
On GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15…
Hughart Fan Site: http://www.barryhughart.org/books.htm
Discussion Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1…
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1…
http://afantasyreader.blogspot.com/20…
“Magical Realism in BoB” by Timm:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDVIjM…
February 24, 2013
Tech History Today – Feb. 25
In 1837 – The U.S. Patent Office approved Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.
In 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
In 1930 – A US patent for a photographing apparatus was issued to George Lewis McCarthy, who called it a Checkograph. It was the first bank check photographing device.
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February 23, 2013
Tech History Today – Feb. 24
In 1949 – A modified German V-2 ballistic missile launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, reached an altitude of 244 miles, putting it well above the Kármán line. It was the first U.S. rocket to reach “outer space.”
In 1955 – A boy was born to University of Wisconsin graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. He was given up for adoption and taken in by a machinist and his wife in Mountain View, California. They named him Steve Jobs.
In 2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from cape Canveral on its final mission.
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February 22, 2013
Tech History Today – Feb. 23
In 1893 – Germany’s Imperial Patent Office granted Rudolph Diesel Patent No. 67207 for “a new efficient thermal engine”. We just call it, the Diesel engine.
In 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signed Public Law no. 632 establishing the Federal Radio Commission which was later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission.
In 1927 – German physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, describing the uncertainty principle for the first time. He submitted a paper on the principle for publication the following March.
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Tech News Today 696: Vita Phone on Vodafone?
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
What’s the Chromebook Pixel for? HP’s crappy earnings are good news, North Korea allows mobile data, and more.
Guest: Darren Kitchen
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Running time:: 0:45:33
