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July 17, 1955: First Town Run on Nuclear Power

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During a one-hour test in 1955, Arco, Idaho became the first town to be fully electrically run on nuclear power. The small community was powered by the National Reactor Testing Station” (NRTS). NTRS later became the Idaho National Laboratory.

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May 22, 1973: Ethernet is Proposed

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1973 – Robert Metcalfe writes a thirteen-page memo describing a new type of data transmission method. His memo was entitled “Ether Acquisition”, which would connect Hawaii’s ALOHA Network.

Alto Ethernet was born on paper, but didn’t see operation until November 11, 1973 when it was implemented.

Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for his work on inventing Ethernet. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

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July 17, 1955: First Town Run on Nuclear Power

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine accenture, aggregator, apple, Arco, arco idaho, day in tech history, gb, Idaho, Idaho National Laboratory, japan, July, july 17, ntrs, nuclear power, Podcast, professional services, reactor testing station, stitcher, technology history, Tokyo, twitter 0 Comments July 17, 2018

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May 22, 1973: Ethernet is Proposed

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine adobe, ALOHAnet, apple, arcades, Computing, docks with space station, Ethernet, game, geek history, Google, history, illustrator 7, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, laser printer, man, man machine, movie theater, ms pac man, namco, Newton, north america, pac-man, Podcast, popular games, Released, Robert Metcalfe, ships, spin offs, stitcher, Technology, technology history, Tokyo, Tōru Iwatani, video game, Xerox Alto 0 Comments May 22, 2018

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Alto Ethernet was born on paper, but didn’t see operation until November 11, 1973 when it was implemented.

Metcalfe was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996 for his work on inventing Ethernet. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007.

Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for May 22

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Robert Metcalfe describes a new device called the Laser Printer
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Apple splits Newton into it’s own division
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May 22, 1980: First Pac-Man Video Game Installed

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1980 – The first Pac-Man machine was installed. Namco installed the first Pac-Man machine in a movie theater in Tokyo. Created by Toru Iwatani, the game has been one of the most popular in Arcades around the world. Of course, Pac-Man was one of the most popular games in history and created many spin-offs including Ms. Pac-Man. Pac-Man was released in North America October of that year.

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