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Nov. 7, 1932: Radio Enters the 25th Century 1932: Space adventurer Buck Rogers debuts on CBS radio. The science fiction show, eventually called Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, will delight loyal fans over a span of 15 years and inspire aficionados for decades more. Writer Phil Nowlan unveiled space swashbuckler Buck Rogers Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 7, 1932: Radio Enters the 25th Century 1932: Space adventurer Buck Rogers debuts on CBS radio. The science fiction show, eventually called Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, will delight loyal fans over a span of 15 years and inspire aficionados for decades more. Writer Phil Nowlan unveiled space swashbuckler Buck Rogers Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 5, 1893: A Design Star Is Born 1893: Raymond Loewy, one of the founders of modern industrial design, is born. His vision of streamlining will shape a century. Loewy's classic designs include the Coca-Cola bottle, the sleek-sided 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the Pennsylvania Railroad's streamlined S-1 Locom Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 5, 1893: A Design Star Is Born 1893: Raymond Loewy, one of the founders of modern industrial design, is born. His vision of streamlining will shape a century. Loewy's classic designs include the Coca-Cola bottle, the sleek-sided 1929 Gestetner duplicating machine, the Pennsylvania Railroad's streamlined S-1 Locom Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White Spaces - ZDNet Also on Nov. 4, FCC passes White SpacesZDNet - 2 hours agoLittle reported amid the torrent of news and analysis on easily the most significant election since Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and given the economic crisis, perhaps the most significant since FDR in 1932), the FCC Tuesd Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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The 7 worst tech predictions of all time Predicting the future ain't easy. That's why astrologers and fortune tellers tend to keep their forecasts as vague as possible. But in the high-stakes world of high technology, the future belongs to those who see it coming well in advance. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial 1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just weeks away. Frank Conrad was assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh. He'd been interested in Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial 1920: The Joseph Horne department store in Pittsburgh advertises ready-made radio receivers that can pick up a local broadcast station. Commercial radio is just weeks away. Frank Conrad was assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh. He'd been interested in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 14, 1666: Watching a Transfusion, and Taking Notes 1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator for the Royal Navy, as well as a member of Parliament. But he is best remembered for hi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 14, 1666: Watching a Transfusion, and Taking Notes 1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator for the Royal Navy, as well as a member of Parliament. But he is best remembered for hi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 6, 1928: All the News That's Lit 1928: The New York Times begins flashing headlines to pedestrians outside its offices at 1 Times Square, using an electronic news strip that wraps around the fourth floor of the building. The Motograph News Bulletin, or "zipper" as it was known informally, was a technological marvel of Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 6, 1928: All the News That's Lit 1928: The New York Times begins flashing headlines to pedestrians outside its offices at 1 Times Square, using an electronic news strip that wraps around the fourth floor of the building. The Motograph News Bulletin, or "zipper" as it was known informally, was a technological marvel of Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Camaro Enters the 21st Century — With a Hybrid? Chevrolet considers fitting its retro iconic automobile, the Camaro, with a hybrid engine. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Camaro Enters the 21st Century — With a Hybrid? Chevrolet considers fitting its retro iconic automobile, the Camaro, with a hybrid engine. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 12, 1935: You Should (Not) Have a Lobotomy 1935: The world's first modern frontal leukotomy is performed in a Lisbon hospital by Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz. Moniz's leukotomy (or leucotomy, from the Greek for "cutting white," in this case the brain's white matter) soon became popularly known as the lobotomy. It w Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |