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December 18, 1926: Photon is Coined

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1926 – The term “Photon” is coined. Of course a photon is the basic “unit” of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Newton Lewis is the one who coins the term.

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HTML 4.0 is published
.au goes back to auDA
Dan Hesse becomes CEO of Sprint.

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December 16, 1994: Large Hadron Collider Approved

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1994 – Although its only been in mainstream news for a couple years, the Large Hadron Collider has actually been around for many years now. On this day, for example, CERN receives not only approval, but also the funding to build this massive device. Because of this, CERN hands the WebCore project to the French organization INRIA (the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique.)

Kevin Mitnick charged with stealing $1 million from DEC
The Transistor is first demonstrated to a small audience
The Pepper Pad is released
Steve Jobs and Apple back out of MacWorld

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July 21, 1925: John Scopes Guilty on Teaching Evolution

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John Scopes was an activist and a teacher. In what was called the “Scopes Monkey Trial“, John was charged on May 5th, 1925 of teaching evolution in his Tennessee classroom. On July 21 he was found guilty and fined $100. The central argument in the case was the Butler Act, prohibiting that human evolution, or any Biblical account of origin could be taught.Scopes verdict was overturned, but only because of a technicality. The Judge fined Scopes and not a jury.

The Butler Act was repealed in 1967.

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Xerox leaves the computer market
Blueberry iBook Computer announced
Apple announces a worker at Foxconn commits suicide for loosing an Apple 4G prototype

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March 20, 1916: The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity

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1916 – Albert Einstein sent a paper off to Annelen Der Physik. The paper was called “Die Grundlage der Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie” – translated as “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity”.

The paper included the Principle considerations about the Postulate of Relativity, Mathmatical auxiliiaries for establishing the general covariant equations, theory of gravitational fields, and Newton’s theory as first approximation.

For years thereafter, people studied this theory and tried to prove or disprove it.

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Google Chome adds RSS support
3-COM exit strategy of high-end data networking
Apple 20th Anniversary Macintosh (TAM)

Robert Goddard and the liquid fueled rocket

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March 16, 1926: First Liquid-Fueled Rocket Launched

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1926 – Robert Goddard became the first man to launch liquid-fueled rocket. The liquid oxygen and gasoline mixture launched the 10 foot rocket, travelling at 60 MPH, to an altitude of 41 feet.

The rocket was dubbed “Nell” and was launched in the cold climate in Auburn Massachusetts.

The New York Times picked up on Goddard’s experiment, but wasn’t kind to him. They denounced his work, ultimately swaying public opinion.

An unwavered Goddard put together a team and in 1930 continued his research. He made some great strides until 1945 when he passed away.

His work and 214 patents gave way for scientists to continue the research and eventually send astronauts to the moon. On July 1969, The New York Times retracted the 1926 article, giving him proper credit as the father of modern rocketry.

Too bad he didn’t get to see it…

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Sci-Fi announces the name change to SyFy
Mac OS X Server 1.0
WikiWikiWeb

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January 17, 1882: Carbon Microphone for Telephone

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1882 – Thomas Edison created more tech history when he was granted a patent for the carbon microphone for the telephone. The carbon was in between two cups and attached to the mouthpiece. The diaphragm would change pressure, causing the carbon to be pushed upon. That would send electric current to the other end – which would transpose it back to audio.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

The infamous “Apple Ad” shows up in movie theatres
IBM charged with the Sherman Antitrust Act
Apple reaches an “out of court” settlement with NeXT
Co-Founder Jerry Yang Steps down from Yahoo!
In protest to SOPA, many websites blacked out their web pages.

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