Happy Boxing Day! Apparently it has nothing to do with boxing. Who knew?
Today is December 26th and today in Geek History...
1791 Charles Babbage designer of the Difference Engine is born in London England.
1898 Marie and Pieree Curie announce the isolation of the element Radium. They will eventually die of radiation poisoning too. How sad.
1933 Edwin H Armstrong is awarded a patent for frequency-modulated or FM radio. And the airwaves have never been the same.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Today in Geek History
Today is November 7th and today in Geek History...
1867 Marie Curie is born in Warsaw Poland.
1975 The first pilot episode of "The New Original Wonder Woman" with Lynda Carter airs on ABC.
1994 Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill broadcast the world's first internet radio.
1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
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