Sure can't trust those e-mails, can you? :) Nope. Sure can't trust those picky corrections either, eh? :) Lab work and patent applications is one thing. Practicality as far as the general public is concerned is quite another.
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans generally credited with building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft making the first controlled, powered and heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, they developed their flying machine into the world's first practical fixed-wing aircraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Brothers
And just when were the first trans-continental, Trans-Atlantic, and Trans-Pacific flights that carried paying customers?
1941: North America's current 525-line/30-pictures-a-second standard, known as the NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) standard, is adopted. Note: This was Black and White not Color TV broadcasting.
1953: A microwave network connects CBC television stations in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. The first private television stations begin operation in Sudbury and London. Queen Elizabeth's coronation is also televised this year, and the CBC beats U.S. competitors to the punch by flying footage across the Atlantic. TV Guide is launched this year, and the U.S. begins colour transmission again, this time successfully. Japanese television goes on the air for the first time.
HDTV is relatively new or not? I saw it demoed around Fifteen years ago. It was a closed circuit experience. No TV consumers could have watched the program on their home TV’s, nor was there a way to broadcast it to them.
From your same link: Use of penicillin did not begin until the 1940s when Howard Florey and Ernst Chain isolated the active ingredient and developed a powdery form of the medicine.
From your link: 1906 The Haloid Company is founded in Rochester, N.Y., to manufacture and sell photographic paper, April 18.
Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography, is born in Seattle, Feb. 8. Note: Chester must have had an extremely creative gestation period to have invented Xerography in his first year on earth. Or was I led astray by your choice of words?
1942 Carlson receives U.S. patent No. 2,297,691 on Oct. 6 for electrophotography, later called xerography, the technology that revolutionized the world of imaging.
1947 Haloid acquires license to Chester Carlson's basic xerographic patents from Battelle Development Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, a subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute.
1948 Haloid and Battelle announce development of xerography.
The word "Xerox" is trademarked.
First of 213 consecutive quarterly dividends is declared.
1949 The first xerographic copier, the Model A, is introduced.
1956 Rank Xerox Limited is formed as joint venture of The Haloid Company and The Rank Organisation plc.
1958 The Haloid Company changes name to Haloid Xerox Inc., April 16.
1959 The Xerox 914, the first automatic, plain-paper office copier, is announced.
Haloid purchases all worldwide patents on xerography from Battelle Memorial Institute.
Your grandchildren shouldn't believe that list. How long ago was it created? Apparently it was not created that long ago as far as us 59’ers and other internet users are concerned.
When was that list created? When was the internet created?
hmmmm - we didn't even have electricity until 1951 - kinda hard to watch the "invented" television. unless of course, we had a peddle generator. oh, forgot, they weren't available either
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