by PaulStradling | May 24, 2023 | Tech Trivia
02 June 1966 : Getting Off The Ground Isn’t Always Easy! Chuck Yeager (famous for being the first to break the sound barrier) mentioned in his excellent autobiography that whilst he was training Neil Amstrong in high-altitude flying, he found him a little a bit...
by PaulStradling | May 17, 2023 | Tech Trivia
Let There Be Light On May 16th, 1960, a new kind of light existed that nobody had ever seen before. This kind of light has unique properties and doesn’t exist in nature and as far as we know, it had never existed anywhere in the universe since it began, 13.8 billion...
by PaulStradling | May 10, 2023 | Tech Trivia
1954 : Silicon Makes A Splash On 10th May 1954, Gordon Kidd Teal created a sensation at an Institute of Radio Engineers conference when he presented silicon transistors for the first time by announcing they were ready for production and available for sale. Why...
by PaulStradling | Apr 26, 2023 | Tech Trivia
The Birth Of The IC Around this time 62 years ago (April 25th, 1961), Robert Noyce (co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor) patented his invention – a monolithic integrated circuit (IC). Jack Kilby patented a similar invention, but his version was difficult to mass...
by PaulStradling | Apr 19, 2023 | Tech Trivia
This Week in History : April 23, 2005: A Trip to the Zoo and $1.6 Billion Later … On April 23, 2005, at exactly 8:31:52 pm local time, the first ever YouTube video was uploaded. It was titled ‘Me at the Zoo’ and is a 19 second recording of the co-founder of...
by PaulStradling | Apr 13, 2023 | Tech Trivia
Imagine for a moment that it’s April 14th, 1912 and just moments ago you were having a pleasant evening onboard one of the most luxurious and largest ships of its time. However, you are now sitting in a tiny lifeboat, surrounded by pitch black freezing water waiting...
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