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The beginning of a mega-company | The merge of General Electric | Techday, April 15th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 15th 1982, the General Electric Company (GE) was made, when Edison General Electric (started by Thomas Edison in 1890) and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company merged. When the Dow Jones ...
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HTC S730 | TechMuseum Year of release: 2007 Technical specifications : Network: GSM/HSPA Dimensions: 105.8 x 51 x 19.4 mm Weight: 150g Antenna : No Display : Color Sound : Polyphonic Bluetooth: Yes WiFi: Yes OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 The HTC S730 features GSM Network ...
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Humans split the Atom | Techday, April 14th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 14th 1932, humans managed to split the atom for the first time with a proton beam “shot” on a lithium target. Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, both physicists, had developed the first nuclear particle accelerator. They ...
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IBM 5100 | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1975 - 1978 Technical Specifications: Processor: IBM Palm , 1.9 MHz RAM: 16 - 64 KB FDD: - HDD: - Audio: - Connectors/Ports: External cassette drive, printer, cassette tape Case: Portable type Monitor: Monochrome OS: BASIC or APL The IBM ...
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Birthday of Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt | The inventor of RADAR is born | Techday, April 13th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 13th 1892, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was born. He was a Scottish physicist credited with the development of radar location of aircraft, in England. As a mathematician, who ...
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Nokia 6600 | TechMuseum Year of release: 2003 Technical specifications : Network: GSM Dimensions: 109x 58x 24mm Weight: 122g Antenna : No Display : Color Sound : Polyphonic or Monophonic Bluetooth: Yes WiFi: No OS: Symbian 7.0s The Nokia 6600 features a GSM Network connection ...
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Humans in outer space | First manned spaceflight | Techday, April 12th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 12th 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Yuri Gagarin, at the age of 27, became the first human to orbit the Earth aboard that Soviet spacecraft. He remained ...
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Oric Telestrat | TechMuseum Year of manufacture: 1986 Technical Specifications: Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz RAM: 64 KB FDD: Microdisc 3" HDD: - Audio: Eight octaves, three channels Connectors/Ports: two joysticks, serial, cassette, disk drive, audio, RGB, expansion, parallel, disc controller, ...
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Germany's first computer | Z1 Introduced | Techday, April 11th On this TECHDAY in history, on April 11th 1936, the German civil engineer and early computer pioneer Konrad Zuse filed for a patent on the automatic execution of calculations, which would later become a central part of the Z1, Germany’s first computer ...
