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October 7, 1954: IBM Gets Transistorized | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes.IBM already had a business selling calculating machines, and it was humming along quite nicely. The IBM ...
Feb. 25, 1837: Davenport Electric Motor Gets Plugged In | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1837: The U.S. Patent Office approves Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.Davenport was a Vermont blacksmith ...