history

The shuttle program ends, and with it, an era of American tech excellence

Dylan / 7/8/2011

The last American space shuttle, STS-135, lifted off this morning, bringing to a close a remarkable era in U.S. technological […]

Dylan / 5/25/2011

1945: Arthur C. Clarke begins privately circulating copies of a paper that proposes using space satellites for global communications. It

Dylan / 4/3/2011

The portable computer was born 30 years ago this weekend, when Adam Osborne unveiled the Osborne 1 in San Francisco.

Dylan / 3/18/2011

A strange legacy of the Japanese power system’s infancy in the late 1800s is complicating efforts to keep Tokyo supplied

Dylan / 11/2/2010

1815: English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born. Boole’s breakthrough

Dylan / 10/7/2010

1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes. IBM already had a business

Dylan / 2/25/2010

1837: The U.S. Patent Office approves Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism

Dylan / 9/23/2009

Sept. 24, 1979: First Online Service for Consumers Debuts The company known as Compu-Serve, and later CompuServe, opened its doors