On 20 March 1917 Gideon Sundback was granted US patent 1,219,881 for his separable fastener, the second version of his hookless fastener, which he called “Hookless Number 2”, according to the ...
At 11:44 on 19 September 1982, Scott Fahlman posted a message on the Carnegie Mellon computer science general bulletin board, known as the bboard, proposing :-) as a marker for jokes. The post is ...
IBM engineer David Bradley wrote the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination into the original IBM PC in 1981 so the machine could be restarted without being switched off. He meant it for programmers and people ...
On 7 July 1928 the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri sold its first loaf of sliced bread, cut by Otto Rohwedder’s machine and sold under the name Kleen Maid Sliced Bread, according ...
Just after 8 a.m. on 26 June 1974, the first item marked with a Universal Product Code was scanned at the checkout of Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The shopper ...
In April 1991, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft was a year and a half into its journey to Jupiter when it ran the commands to open its main antenna. Minutes later, telemetry showed that the motors had ...
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