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MACER FLORIDUS'S "DE VIRIBUS HERBARUM CARMEN", THE FIRST On May 9, 1477 printer Arnaldus de Bruxella in Naples issued the first printed edition of the hexameter poem, De viribus herbarum carmen attributed to Macer Floridus (or Aemilius Macer), a pseudonym of Odo of Meung (Odo de Meung, Odo Magdunensis), who lived in the Loire area of France towards the end of the eleventh century. Macer's unillustrated text described the medicinal properties of 77 EDWARD I (LONGSHANKS) EXPELLS THE JEWS FROM ENGLAND In 1290 King Edward I of England (Longshanks) issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. "Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656. The edict was not an isolated incident but the culmination of THE EARLIEST IMAGES OF A WHEELED VEHICLE : HISTORY OF Evidence of wheeled vehicles appears from the mid 4th millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe, so the question of which culture originally invented the wheeled vehicle remains unresolved.. The earliest well-dated image of a wheeled vehicle, radiocabon dated to 3500-3350 BCE, is on the Bronocice pot, a Funnelbeaker culture ceramic vase JEAN MIELOT, PROBABLY THE MOST EXTENSIVELY PORTRAYED LATE Detail of grisaille style painting by Jean Le Tavernier of Jean Miélot writing in his scriptorium, probably in the ducal library, from Miracles de Notre Dame, Bibliothèque nationale de France MS 9198 f.19. Reproduced from Christopher de Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators (1992) plate 28. The portrait includes very detailed renderings of the room's furnishings, and the writer DICKENS'S LAUNCHES THE "CHEAP EDITION" OF HIS WORKS In order to further promote and increase the circulation of his writings, and to make them more readily affordable, at the end of March 1847 Dickens initiated the "Cheap Edition" of his works to be sold in parts, with smaller page size and the type set in two columns, and with different and fewer illustrations. THE PROTO-SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS, THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE FOR The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, first discovered at Serabit el-Khadem (Serabit el-Khadim), an ancient Egyptian turquoise mining site in the Sinai Peninsula, by W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1905, and supplemented by additional finds in subsequent decades, represent the earliest evidence for alphabetic writing. They consist of linear pictographic symbols inscribed on statuettes, stone panels, and EDWIN LINK BUILDS THE FIRST FLIGHT SIMULATOR : HISTORY OF In 1929 Edwin Albert Link of Binghamton, New York designed and constructed the Link Trainer, the first flight simulator, as a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments.Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. THE INSTRUCTIONS OF SHURUPPAK, SOME OF THE EARLIEST The Instructions of Shuruppak, one of the earliest surviving literary works, is a Sumerian " wisdom" text. This was a genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue and preserve community standing. The text was set in great antiquity by its incipit: "In those days, in those far remotetimes
SOME OF THE EARLIEST PAPER RECYCLING OCCURRED IN JAPAN In Japan the remade paper became the sole commodity of the paper-shops ( kamiya) and was known by the name of kamiya-gami, literally paper-shop paper. The reclaimed material used in the making of the kamiya-gami was charged with ink and pigment and therefore the paper manufactured from the used material was of a grey tone. It has beenstated
THE EARLIEST CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS THAT ARE INDISPUTABLY The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally 'shell-bone-script') of the late thirteenth century BCE.It is not until the oracle-bone inscriptions that we find grammatically connected marks that certainly record language. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S ROSE DIAGRAM : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The graphic, which Nightingale used as a way to explain complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become known as Nightingale's "Rose Diagram." In January 1859 Nightingale more offically published and distributed A Contribution to the the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia. THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HOUSE CHURCH, WITH THE MOST ANCIENT The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches. For the first three centuries of the church, known as Early Christianity, Christians typically met in homes because of intermittent persecution before Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious toleration THE CHARGA-PLATE, PRECURSOR OF THE CREDIT CARD : HISTORY The Charga-Plate bookkeeping system, a precursor of the credit card issued by Charga-Plate Group, Inc. New York, was utilized from 1935 to 1950, and somewhat later. "It was a 2 1/2" x 1 1/4" rectangle of sheet metal, similar to a military dog tag, that was embossed with the customer's name, city and state . DANIEL J. SANDLIN INVENTS THE SAYRE GLOVE : HISTORY OF Daniel J. Sandin. In 1977 Daniel J. Sandin and Thomas Defanti at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary research lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, created the Sayre Glove, the first wired glove or data glove. The glove was based on an idea of a colleague at the laboratory, Richard Sayre. An inexpensive DICKENS'S LAUNCHES THE "CHEAP EDITION" OF HIS WORKS In order to further promote and increase the circulation of his writings, and to make them more readily affordable, at the end of March 1847 Dickens initiated the "Cheap Edition" of his works to be sold in parts, with smaller page size and the type set in two columns, and with different and fewer illustrations. THE PROTO-SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS, THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE FOR The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, first discovered at Serabit el-Khadem (Serabit el-Khadim), an ancient Egyptian turquoise mining site in the Sinai Peninsula, by W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1905, and supplemented by additional finds in subsequent decades, represent the earliest evidence for alphabetic writing. They consist of linear pictographic symbols inscribed on statuettes, stone panels, and EDWIN LINK BUILDS THE FIRST FLIGHT SIMULATOR : HISTORY OF In 1929 Edwin Albert Link of Binghamton, New York designed and constructed the Link Trainer, the first flight simulator, as a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments.Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. THE INSTRUCTIONS OF SHURUPPAK, SOME OF THE EARLIEST The Instructions of Shuruppak, one of the earliest surviving literary works, is a Sumerian " wisdom" text. This was a genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue and preserve community standing. The text was set in great antiquity by its incipit: "In those days, in those far remotetimes
SOME OF THE EARLIEST PAPER RECYCLING OCCURRED IN JAPAN In Japan the remade paper became the sole commodity of the paper-shops ( kamiya) and was known by the name of kamiya-gami, literally paper-shop paper. The reclaimed material used in the making of the kamiya-gami was charged with ink and pigment and therefore the paper manufactured from the used material was of a grey tone. It has beenstated
THE EARLIEST CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS THAT ARE INDISPUTABLY The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally 'shell-bone-script') of the late thirteenth century BCE.It is not until the oracle-bone inscriptions that we find grammatically connected marks that certainly record language. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S ROSE DIAGRAM : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The graphic, which Nightingale used as a way to explain complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become known as Nightingale's "Rose Diagram." In January 1859 Nightingale more offically published and distributed A Contribution to the the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia. THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HOUSE CHURCH, WITH THE MOST ANCIENT The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches. For the first three centuries of the church, known as Early Christianity, Christians typically met in homes because of intermittent persecution before Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious toleration THE CHARGA-PLATE, PRECURSOR OF THE CREDIT CARD : HISTORY The Charga-Plate bookkeeping system, a precursor of the credit card issued by Charga-Plate Group, Inc. New York, was utilized from 1935 to 1950, and somewhat later. "It was a 2 1/2" x 1 1/4" rectangle of sheet metal, similar to a military dog tag, that was embossed with the customer's name, city and state . DANIEL J. SANDLIN INVENTS THE SAYRE GLOVE : HISTORY OF Daniel J. Sandin. In 1977 Daniel J. Sandin and Thomas Defanti at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, a cross-disciplinary research lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, created the Sayre Glove, the first wired glove or data glove. The glove was based on an idea of a colleague at the laboratory, Richard Sayre. An inexpensive DICKENS'S LAUNCHES THE "CHEAP EDITION" OF HIS WORKS In order to further promote and increase the circulation of his writings, and to make them more readily affordable, at the end of March 1847 Dickens initiated the "Cheap Edition" of his works to be sold in parts, with smaller page size and the type set in two columns, and with different and fewer illustrations. EDWARD I (LONGSHANKS) EXPELLS THE JEWS FROM ENGLAND In 1290 King Edward I of England (Longshanks) issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. "Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656. The edict was not an isolated incident but the culmination of THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HOUSE CHURCH, WITH THE MOST ANCIENT The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches. For the first three centuries of the church, known as Early Christianity, Christians typically met in homes because of intermittent persecution before Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious toleration THE VERY LONG PROCESS OF CANONIZATION OF THE HEBREW BIBLE The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947."The version of the text is generally in agreement with the Masoretic or traditional version codified in medieval codices, such as the Aleppo Codex, but it contains many variant readings, alternative spellings, scribal errors,and corrections.
IVAN SUTHERLAND AND BOB SPROULL CREATE THE FIRST VIRTUAL In 1968 Ivan Sutherland at the University of Utah, with the help of his student Bob Sproull, created the first Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) head mounted display system.. Sutherland's head mounted display was so heavy that it had to be suspended from the ceiling, and the formidable appearance of the device inspired its name—the Sword of Damocles. NIMATRON: AN EARLY ELECTROMECHANICAL MACHINE TO PLAY THE For the Westinghouse Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1940 nuclear physicist Edward Condon, then associate director of research at the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, designed and patented an electromechanical machine called the Nimatron to play the ancient mathematical strategy game of Nim.Condon and associates applied for a patent on this early special purpose : HISTORY OF INFORMATION Last updated June 6th, 2021 Pacific Time © 2004–2021 Jeremy M. Norman | © 2004–2021 Jeremy M. Norman | "GALAXY GAME", THE EARLIEST COIN-OPERATED COMPUTER OR The earliest known coin-operated computer or video game, Galaxy Game, was installed at the Tresidder Union at Stanford University in September, 1971, two months before the release of Computer Space, the first mass-produced video game. Only one unit was built initially, although the game later included several consoles allowing users to play against each other. THE EARLIEST IMAGES OF A WHEELED VEHICLE : HISTORY OF The earliest well-dated image of a wheeled vehicle, radiocabon dated to 3500-3350 BCE, is on the Bronocice pot, a Funnelbeaker culture ceramic vase discovered in 1976 during the archaeological excavation of a large Neolithic settlement in Bronocice by the Nidzica River,circa 50
BOOK STACKS UNLIMITED WAS A PRECURSOR TO AMAZON.COM'S Permalink. In 1992 Charles M. Stack founded Book Stacks Unlimited , an online bookstore selling new physical books. Stack's store began as a dial-up bulletin board located in Cleveland, Ohio. It moved to the Internet as Books.com, eventually attracting a half million visitors each month. This was two years before Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com. JEAN MIELOT, PROBABLY THE MOST EXTENSIVELY PORTRAYED LATE Detail of grisaille style painting by Jean Le Tavernier of Jean Miélot writing in his scriptorium, probably in the ducal library, from Miracles de Notre Dame, Bibliothèque nationale de France MS 9198 f.19. Reproduced from Christopher de Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators (1992) plate 28. The portrait includes very detailed renderings of the room's furnishings, and the writer THE PROTO-SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS, THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE FOR The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, first discovered at Serabit el-Khadem (Serabit el-Khadim), an ancient Egyptian turquoise mining site in the Sinai Peninsula, by W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1905, and supplemented by additional finds in subsequent decades, represent the earliest evidence for alphabetic writing. They consist of linear pictographic symbols inscribed on statuettes, stone panels, and THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HOUSE CHURCH, WITH THE MOST ANCIENT The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches. For the first three centuries of the church, known as Early Christianity, Christians typically met in homes because of intermittent persecution before Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious toleration CHRISTIAN THOMSEN FOUNDS THE "THREE-AGE" SYSTEM INTHREE AGE SYSTEM ARCHAEOLOGYCHRIS THOMSENCJ THOMSENTHE THREE AGESTHREE AGE SYSTEMTIMELINE
In this small book Thomsen formulated a method of classifying the museum’s archeological collections according to whether the artifacts were made of stone, bronze or iron. He claimed that these three groupings represented three chronologically successive archeological ages; this was the genesis of the Three-Age system, “the basic chronology THE INSTRUCTIONS OF SHURUPPAK, SOME OF THE EARLIEST The Instructions of Shuruppak, one of the earliest surviving literary works, is a Sumerian " wisdom" text. This was a genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue and preserve community standing. The text was set in great antiquity by its incipit: "In those days, in those far remotetimes
THE EARLIEST CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS THAT ARE INDISPUTABLY The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally 'shell-bone-script') of the late thirteenth century BCE.It is not until the oracle-bone inscriptions that we find grammatically connected marks that certainly record language. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S ROSE DIAGRAM : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The graphic, which Nightingale used as a way to explain complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become known as Nightingale's "Rose Diagram." In January 1859 Nightingale more offically published and distributed A Contribution to the the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia. SOME OF THE EARLIEST PAPER RECYCLING OCCURRED IN JAPANBENEFITS OF RECYCLING PAPERCOST OF RECYCLING PAPERFREE PAPER RECYCLING CENTERSFREE PAPER RECYCLING SERVICESTHE PROCESS OF RECYCLING PAPERRECYCLING METALSEXAMPLES
In Japan the remade paper became the sole commodity of the paper-shops ( kamiya) and was known by the name of kamiya-gami, literally paper-shop paper. The reclaimed material used in the making of the kamiya-gami was charged with ink and pigment and therefore the paper manufactured from the used material was of a grey tone. It has beenstated
PAPYRUS 75, THE OLDEST SURVIVING FRAGMENT FROM THE GOSPEL Papyrus 75 (75, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV), an early Greek New Testament papyrus of the Alexandrian text-type written between 175 and 225 CE, was purchased from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana by Frank Hanna III, and donated to the Vatican Library in March 2007.This papyrus is believed to contain the oldest known fragment from the Gospel of Luke, the earliest known Lord's Prayer, and one of the oldest OLIVER EVANS BUILDS THE FIRST AUTOMATED FLOUR MILL About 1785 American inventor Oliver Evans invented and promoted the process of continous process milling. He built the first automated flour mill on Red-Clay Creek near Newport, Delaware. Driven by water power, the mill operated continuously through the use of five bulk material handling devices including a hopper-boy, bucket elevators, conveyor belts, Archimedean screws, and descenders THE OLDEST SURVIVING CONSULAR DIPTYCH : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The oldest surviving diptych that can be called a consular diptych was commissioned by Anicius Petronius Probus, consul in the western empire in 406. It is the only consular diptych to bear the portrait of the emperor (Honorius in this instance, to whom the diptych is dedicated in an inscription full of humility, with Probus calling himself the emperor's "famulus" or slave) rather than a THE PROTO-SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS, THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE FOR The Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, first discovered at Serabit el-Khadem (Serabit el-Khadim), an ancient Egyptian turquoise mining site in the Sinai Peninsula, by W. M. Flinders Petrie in 1905, and supplemented by additional finds in subsequent decades, represent the earliest evidence for alphabetic writing. They consist of linear pictographic symbols inscribed on statuettes, stone panels, and THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN HOUSE CHURCH, WITH THE MOST ANCIENT The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches. For the first three centuries of the church, known as Early Christianity, Christians typically met in homes because of intermittent persecution before Constantine's Edict of Milan in 313 proclaimed religious toleration CHRISTIAN THOMSEN FOUNDS THE "THREE-AGE" SYSTEM INTHREE AGE SYSTEM ARCHAEOLOGYCHRIS THOMSENCJ THOMSENTHE THREE AGESTHREE AGE SYSTEMTIMELINE
In this small book Thomsen formulated a method of classifying the museum’s archeological collections according to whether the artifacts were made of stone, bronze or iron. He claimed that these three groupings represented three chronologically successive archeological ages; this was the genesis of the Three-Age system, “the basic chronology THE INSTRUCTIONS OF SHURUPPAK, SOME OF THE EARLIEST The Instructions of Shuruppak, one of the earliest surviving literary works, is a Sumerian " wisdom" text. This was a genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue and preserve community standing. The text was set in great antiquity by its incipit: "In those days, in those far remotetimes
THE EARLIEST CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS THAT ARE INDISPUTABLY The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script (Chinese: 甲骨文; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén; literally 'shell-bone-script') of the late thirteenth century BCE.It is not until the oracle-bone inscriptions that we find grammatically connected marks that certainly record language. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S ROSE DIAGRAM : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The graphic, which Nightingale used as a way to explain complex statistics simply, clearly, and persuasively, has become known as Nightingale's "Rose Diagram." In January 1859 Nightingale more offically published and distributed A Contribution to the the Sanitary History of the British Army During the Late War with Russia. SOME OF THE EARLIEST PAPER RECYCLING OCCURRED IN JAPANBENEFITS OF RECYCLING PAPERCOST OF RECYCLING PAPERFREE PAPER RECYCLING CENTERSFREE PAPER RECYCLING SERVICESTHE PROCESS OF RECYCLING PAPERRECYCLING METALSEXAMPLES
In Japan the remade paper became the sole commodity of the paper-shops ( kamiya) and was known by the name of kamiya-gami, literally paper-shop paper. The reclaimed material used in the making of the kamiya-gami was charged with ink and pigment and therefore the paper manufactured from the used material was of a grey tone. It has beenstated
PAPYRUS 75, THE OLDEST SURVIVING FRAGMENT FROM THE GOSPEL Papyrus 75 (75, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV), an early Greek New Testament papyrus of the Alexandrian text-type written between 175 and 225 CE, was purchased from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana by Frank Hanna III, and donated to the Vatican Library in March 2007.This papyrus is believed to contain the oldest known fragment from the Gospel of Luke, the earliest known Lord's Prayer, and one of the oldest OLIVER EVANS BUILDS THE FIRST AUTOMATED FLOUR MILL About 1785 American inventor Oliver Evans invented and promoted the process of continous process milling. He built the first automated flour mill on Red-Clay Creek near Newport, Delaware. Driven by water power, the mill operated continuously through the use of five bulk material handling devices including a hopper-boy, bucket elevators, conveyor belts, Archimedean screws, and descenders THE OLDEST SURVIVING CONSULAR DIPTYCH : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The oldest surviving diptych that can be called a consular diptych was commissioned by Anicius Petronius Probus, consul in the western empire in 406. It is the only consular diptych to bear the portrait of the emperor (Honorius in this instance, to whom the diptych is dedicated in an inscription full of humility, with Probus calling himself the emperor's "famulus" or slave) rather than a OLIVER EVANS BUILDS THE FIRST AUTOMATED FLOUR MILL About 1785 American inventor Oliver Evans invented and promoted the process of continous process milling. He built the first automated flour mill on Red-Clay Creek near Newport, Delaware. Driven by water power, the mill operated continuously through the use of five bulk material handling devices including a hopper-boy, bucket elevators, conveyor belts, Archimedean screws, and descenders THE EXETER BOOK: THE LARGEST ORIGINAL COLLECTION OF OLD A tenth-century anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry, the Exeter Book, (Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, Codex Exoniensis) is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices, along with the Vercelli Book, the Nowell Codex and the Junius manuscript.The largest surviving original collection of Old English literature, containing approximately one-sixth of the surviving corpus of Old English NIMATRON: AN EARLY ELECTROMECHANICAL MACHINE TO PLAY THE For the Westinghouse Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1940 nuclear physicist Edward Condon, then associate director of research at the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, designed and patented an electromechanical machine called the Nimatron to play the ancient mathematical strategy game of Nim.Condon and associates applied for a patent on this early special purpose THE MISSAL OF SILOS, THE OLDEST KNOWN EUROPEAN DOCUMENT OR The oldest known document or codex written on paper in Europe is the Missal of Silos. A quarto comprised of 157 folios, of which folios 1-37 are on paper and the remainder on parchment. CODEX VERCELLENSIS, THE EARLIEST SURVIVING MANUSCRIPT OF Preserved in the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo (Capitulary library and archives) of Vercelli, in the Province of Vercelli, Italy, the Codex Vercellensis Evangeliorum written on purple vellum is the earliest surviving manuscript of the old Latin Gospels ("Codex a"). The old Latin texts— also designed Vetus Latina, Vetus Itala, Old Italic— is the collective name given to Biblical texts in Latin THE ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The Uluburun shipwreck, a Late Bronze Age shipwreck discovered off Uluburun (Grand Cape) about 6 miles southeast of Kas in south-western Turkey, contained one of the most extensive surviving cargos excavated from the Mediterranean sea. As a result of 22,413 dives from 1984 to 1994 a multitude of items of raw material used in trade were excavated. Prior to the discovery of this shipwreck most ORIGINS OF GOOGLE EARTH : HISTORY OF INFORMATION The prehistory of Google Earth began in 2001 when a software development firm called Keyhole, Inc., was founded in Mountain View, California, which happened also to be Google's base of operations. Keyhole specialized in geospatial data visualization applications. The name "Keyhole" paid homage to the original KH reconnaissancesatellites, also
DICKENS'S LAUNCHES THE "CHEAP EDITION" OF HIS WORKS In order to further promote and increase the circulation of his writings, and to make them more readily affordable, at the end of March 1847 Dickens initiated the "Cheap Edition" of his works to be sold in parts, with smaller page size and the type set in two columns, and with different and fewer illustrations. "GALAXY GAME", THE EARLIEST COIN-OPERATED COMPUTER OR The earliest known coin-operated computer or video game, Galaxy Game, was installed at the Tresidder Union at Stanford University in September, 1971, two months before the release of Computer Space, the first mass-produced video game. Only one unit was built initially, although the game later included several consoles allowing users to play against each other. BOOK STACKS UNLIMITED WAS A PRECURSOR TO AMAZON.COM'S Permalink. In 1992 Charles M. Stack founded Book Stacks Unlimited , an online bookstore selling new physical books. Stack's store began as a dial-up bulletin board located in Cleveland, Ohio. It moved to the Internet as Books.com, eventually attracting a half million visitors each month. This was two years before Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com.☰ ˟
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CBS
1933 CE - 1936 CE
Edwin Armstrong Invents Frequency Modulation (FM Radio)1934 CE
Creation of the FCC
1934 CE - 4/27/1935 CE The First Practical Tape Recorder2/12/1935 CE
Robert Watson-Watt Invents Radar10/30/1938 CE
Mass Hysteria Induced by Electronic Media1945 CE
An Antiquarian Bookseller Predicts an Alternative to the Printed Codex6/27/1952 CE
"A Sound of Thunder": Ray Bradbury's Famous Science Fiction Story;Dubious Film
11/1954 CE
The First Commercial Transistor Radio: The First Widely Sold Tranistorized Product 1955 CE - 9/25/1956 CE The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable is Operational11/23/1963 CE
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy & its Coverage on Radio &Television
1964 CE
Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message"1970 CE
Norman Abramson Builds the First Packet-Switched Wireless Data Network10/5/1970 CE
PBS is Founded
1979 CE
The First Widely Used Music Scheduling System1983 CE
One of the First Practical Data Compression Systems1989 CE
Invention of "Buffered Media," the Basis for Webcasting 7/1990 CE - 7/2002 CE Sirius Satellite Radio is Founded1994 CE
The First Demonstration of Wireless Internet Access 5/3/1994 CE - 5/5/1994 CE First Internet Radio Broadcast Occurs11/1994 CE
The Rolling Stones Present the First "Cyberspace Multicast Concert"11/7/1994 CE
The First Traditional Radio Station to Initiate Internet Broadcasts11/10/1994 CE
The First Internet Only Broadcast of a Live Band1/1998 CE
AudioNet (Broadcast.com) Begins the First Continuous Live Webcasts1/2000 CE
Pandora Radio is Founded, Based on the "Music Genome Project"9/25/2001 CE
Satellite Radio Broadcasting Begins2005 CE
"From Gutenberg to the Internet" is Published7/29/2008 CE
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