10 THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN TECH IN MAY
Hello everyone, and here is the fourth blog I'm going to share with you a list of 10 things that happened in tech in May.
May 10, 1894
“Wireless” is born when Guglielmo Marconi sends a radio wave three-quarters of a mile. Wireless was discounted as a communication format since they seemed, at the time, to be a short-range phenomenon. Guglielmo Marconi was eventually rewarded with the Nobel prize for Physics along with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their contribution in the field of wireless telegraphy.
May 11, 1998
Saturn-V
India celebrates this day as National Technology Day, as it was at this day India completes their nuclear test. Hence, making it the sixth country to join the ‘nuclear club’ of nations.
May 14, 1973- Skylab, United States first manned space station. It was the last launch of the Saturn V rocket, and the largest payload ever launched into space at the time. Skylab will fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere in July 1997.
May 16, 1960- American physicist Theodore Maiman invented the laser using a synthetic-ruby crystal device. He was the first to create an operating laser system.
May 17, 1991
The first server “webserver” in history is set up by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The launch of this first server is considered the public release of the World Wide Web.
May 20, 1927
Aboard the “Spirit of St. Louis” monoplane, Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in New York on his historic first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He will arrive in France 33.5 hours later.
May 21, 1952
IBM announced its first production scientific computer The IBM 701 Defense Calculator (1952). The computer was named as the calculator for marketing purpose. It was designed primarily for scientific and defence purpose.
On May 22, 1906
Orville and Wilbur Wright, also known as "The Wright Brothers' were granted the first airplane patent in the U.S. for their “new and useful improvements in Flying Machines".
May 22, 1980
Pac man
Pac man an arcade game developed and released by Namco was launched on May 22, 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases as a preventative measure against defacement of the arcade machines by changing the P to an F.
May 23, 1903
Paris, France and Rome, Italy were connected by telephone for the first time.
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