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Calculating Machine patent by William S. Burroughs | Techday, August 21st On this TECHDAY in history, on August 21st 1888, a patent was given to William S. Burroughs. It was for the earliest functional and practical “Calculating Machine”. Fifty machines were produced within a year and, although they were initially ...
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LaserActive launch | Pioneer's release in the Japanese market | Techday, August 20th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 20th 1993, Pioneer's LaserActive was released in the Japanese market (it would be available in the US market about a month later). The LaserActive was a modular device, at the heart of which ...
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Birthday of Philo Taylor Farnsworth | Pioneer of television technology | Techday, August 19th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 19th 1906, was the birthday of Philo Taylor Farnsworth. He was an American inventor and a TV-technology pioneer. Philo Farnsworth is best known for inventing the first completely ...
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Hewlett-Packard founding | Techday, August 18th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 18th 1947, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett-Packard (HP), with Packard as President and Hewlett as Vice President. The two friends, from their time as students, opened a small laboratory in a rented garage with an ...
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First commercial compact disk (CD) | First album from ABBA in CD | Techday, August 17th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 17th 1982, the first commercial music Compact Disk (CD) was produced by Philips. It contained ABBA's 1981 album, "The Visitors", whose production was delegated to the company's factories in ...
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Birthday of Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann | Pioneer of colour photography | Techday, August 16th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 16th 1845, a pioneer of colour photography was born in Luxemburg. He was Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann an inventor and physicist. He won a Nobel prize in physics, for ...
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iMac G3 release | Techday, August 15th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 15th 1998, the original iMac, the iMac G3, was released. It was a series of personal computers that ran on Macintosh OS and were developed by Apple under the tenure of interim CEO and cofounder Steve Jobs, after his return to the company. ...
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Historic Recall! | Sony and Dell recalling laptop batteries | Techday, August 14th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 14th 2006, after a spate of reports in the preceding months of Dell laptops catching fire, Sony and Dell admitted that flaws were found in batteries manufactured by the former and used in the ...
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Coin operated telephone patent by William Gray | Techday, August 13th On this TECHDAY in history, on August 13th 1889, the earliest patent for a coin operated telephone was awarded to William Gray, an American inventor. Soon afterwards he founded the Gray Telephone Pay Station Company to market this invention. At ...
