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dayName = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
monName = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
now = new Date;
Jan = new Array;
Jan[1] = "The Hewlett Packard Company was founded on this day in 1939.
It operated out of a one-car garage in Palo Alto, CA that
later became a California Historic Landmark.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard decided the company name with a coin toss.";
Jan[2] = "Harold Wheeler invented diode automatic volume control
(also known as automatic gain control) on this day in 1926.";
Jan[3] = "The first two-way transatlantic wireless telegraphy was achieved
between Brant Rock, MA and Machrihanish, Scotland on this day in 1906.";
Jan[4] = "At the MIT Radiation Laboratory an experimental microwave radar set
was tested for the first time on this day in 1941.";
Jan[5] = "A power outage affecting four provinces in eastern Canada
and four states in the northeastern U.S. began on this day in 1998.";
Jan[6] = "East German TV broadcasts began on this day in 1955.";
Jan[7] = "Philipp Reis was born on this day in 1834.
He was a physicist and inventor of a telephone.";
Jan[8] = "The Westinghouse Electric Company was chartered on this day in 1886.";
Jan[9] = "Robert W. Lucky was born on this day in 1936.
He is a contributor to the theory and practice of data communications.";
Jan[10] = "J.H. DeWitt (U.S. Army Signal Corps) saw radio
echoes of the moon on a CRT on this day in 1946.";
Jan[11] = "George W. Pierce was born on this day in 1872.
He was a contributor to the science of radiotelegraphy and
inventor who made many contributions to
electronics, including new crystal rectifiers and oscillators.";
Jan[12] = "AT&T announced its designation of 911 as a
universal emergency number on this date in 1968.";
Jan[13] = "Ray Kurzweil, along with leaders of the National Federation
of the Blind announced the Kurzweil Reading Machine
at a press conference on this day in 1976.";
Jan[14] = "Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his
telephone to Queen Victoria and famously
touched her shoulder on this day in 1878.";
Jan[15] = "On this day in 1981, there was a power outage, lasting four hours in Mexico
that affected 39 million people, 60% of the population.";
Jan[16] = "Eberhardt Rechtin was born on this day in 1926.
He is an aerospace engineer and leader in defense communications.";
Jan[17] = "Benjamin Franklin was born on this day in 1706.
He was a contributor to electrical science and inventor of the lightning rod.";
Jan[18] = "On this day in 1982 Time magazine reached newsstands
with a cover story on video games. On the cover were the words
'Gronk! Flash! Zap! Video Games are Blitzing the World'.";
Jan[19] = "Edison's 'Village System' of electric power
opened in Roselle, New Jersey on this day in 1883.";
Jan[20] = "Clarence W. Hansell was born on this day in 1898.
He was a radio engineer and inventor who
contributed to radio-transmitting design.";
Jan[21] = "The first military experiments with radio
at the Eiffel Tower took place on this day in 1904.";
Jan[22] = "Apple Computer Company introduced the Macintosh computer in a
commercial during the Super Bowl broadcast on this day in 1984.";
Jan[23] = "The Wireless Institute, a predecessor of the Institute of Radio Engineers, (one of
the predecessor Societies of the IEEE) was formed on this day in 1909.";
Jan[24] = "Meir M. Lehman was born on this day in 1925.
He was a contributor to computer design, programming
process analysis, and computer science education.";
Jan[25] = "Ernst F.W. Alexanderson was born on this day in 1878.
He was an electrical engineer who contributed to the technologies
of electric power, control systems, radio, and television.";
Jan[26] = "Akio Morita was born on this day in 1921.
He was a physicist, engineer, and businessman. He was
a cofounder, with Masaru Ibuka, of the Sony Corporation.";
Jan[27] = "IBM first demonstrated the SSEC (Selective Sequence
Electronic Calculator) in New York City on this day in 1948.";
Jan[28] = "The first telephone exchange (in New Haven, Connecticut)
went into service on this day in 1878.";
Jan[29] = "Allen B. Du Mont was born on this day in 1901.
He was an engineer who developed a
commercially successful cathode-ray oscilloscope.";
Jan[30] = "Edison announced his transition from
telegraph operator to inventor on this day in 1869.";
Jan[31] = "Irving Langmuir was born on this day in 1881.
He was a contributor to the science of electrical engineering,
in particular the science of incandescent bulbs and electron tubes.";
Feb = new Array;
Feb[1] = "The Explorer I satellite was launched on this day in 1958";
Feb[2] = "Gertrude Blanch was born on this day in 1897.
She was a pioneer of numerical analysis.";
Feb[3] = "Joseph Swan demonstrated an incandescent lamp
in Newcastle, England on this day in 1879.";
Feb[4] = "The Automatic Implantable Defibrillator was
first implanted in a human on this day in 1980.";
Feb[5] = "Hiram Stevens Maxim was born on this day in 1840.
He was the inventor of the machine-gun and
various electrical devices, including a voltage regulator.";
Feb[6] = "Jack Kilby filed a patent for the integrated circuit on this day in 1959.";
Feb[7] = "An Wang was born on this day in 1920.
He was a developer of the ferrite core memory and the founder
of Wang Laboratories, which developed a desktop computer.";
Feb[8] = "Chester F. Carlson was born on this day in 1906.
He was the inventor of xerography.";
Feb[9] = "On this day in 1928 John Logie Baird demonstrated
television transmission and reception across the Atlantic Ocean.";
Feb[10] = "Edith Clarke was born on this day in 1883.
She was the first woman to earn an Electrical Engineering degree
from MIT and the first woman to be named a Fellow
of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.";
Feb[11] = "Thomas Edison was born on this day in 1847.
He was a prolific inventor, including of telegraph devices,
the phonograph, a practical incandescent light, an electric
power system, the nickel-iron storage battery, and many other devices.";
Feb[12] = "On this day in 1935 Robert Watson-Watt sent a memorandum
entitled 'Detection of aircraft by radio methods',
which has been called 'The Birth Certificate of Radar'.";
Feb[13] = "On this day in 1924 Western Electric demonstrated, with the
movie 'Hawthorne', a sound-on-disc movie system;
this was one of the first commercial sound pictures.";
Feb[14] = "John Hogan was born in this day in 1890.
He was a radio engineer, founder of radio station WQXR in New York City,
and co-founder of the Institute of Radio Engineers.";
Feb[15] = "An official dedication ceremony took place
for the ENIAC computer on this day in 1946.";
Feb[16] = "The first 911 call was placed on this day in 1968.";
Feb[17] = "Donald J. Bell and Albert S. Howell formed the
Bell & Howell Company, which was incorporated on this day in 1907.";
Feb[18] = "Alessandro Volta was born on this day in 1745.
He was the discoverer of a chemical means of generating electric current.";
Feb[19] = "Edison received a patent for the Phonograph in this day in 1878.";
Feb[20] = "The IEEE Virtual Museum premiered on this date in 2002!";
Feb[21] = "The cavity magnetron, important for radar systems,
worked for the first time on this day in 1940.";
Feb[22] = "Heinrich Hertz was born on this day in 1857.
He was a physicist who demonstrated
the existence of electromagnetic waves.";
Feb[23] = "On this day in 1927 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed into law
the Radio Acto of 1927, which created the Federal Radio Commission.";
Feb[24] = "The first commercial radiotelephone
service began on this day in 1910.";
Feb[25] = "What may be considered the first patent
for the electric motor was issued in 1837.";
Feb[26] = "RCA's first experimental television broadcast took place in this day in 1939.";
Feb[27] = "David Sarnoff was born on this day in 1891.
He was the developer of the business of radio and television.";
Feb[28] = "Leon N. Cooper was born on this day in 1930.
He was a physicist, investigator of
superconductivity, and pioneer of neural networks.";
Feb[29] = "Herman Hollerith was born on this day in 1860.
He was the inventor of punched-card equipment for data processing
and founder of the company that evolved into IBM.";
Mar = new Array;
Mar[1] = "The first Xerox machine, Model 914, was shipped on this day in 1960";
Mar[2] = "On this day in 1896 Marconi filed his provisional
specifications of a patent for wireless telegraphy";
Mar[3] = "Alexander Graham Bell was born on this day in 1847.
He was an inventor and promoter of the telephone.";
Mar[4] = "Robert von Lieben applied for a German patent for the cathode-ray
relay, an electron-tube amplifier, on this day in 1906.";
Mar[5] = "On this day in 1967 telephone users began direct dial from Manhattan
to London and Paris. It was a 4-month trial, 80 individuals participated.";
Mar[6] = "On this day in 1940 Russell Ohl demonstrated
silicon photoelectric properties at Bell Labs";
Mar[7] = "The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded on this day in 1799";
Mar[8] = "Howard H. Aiken was born on this day in 1900.
He was the developer of the Automatic Sequence Controlled
Calculator and other electromechanical digital computers.";
Mar[9] = "On this day in 1965 the New York Stock Exchange placed its
first talking computer into operation to provide an
electronic stock quotation system for brokers.";
Mar[10] = "On this day in 1876 Alexander Graham Bell spilled acid
and called 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want you'";
Mar[11] = "Vannevar Bush was born on this day in 1890.
He was a professor of electrical engineering and
developer of electromechanical computing devices.";
Mar[12] = "On this day in 1877 Thomas Edison made a crucial discovery
('that the whole question was one of pressure only, and that
it was not necessary that the diaphragm should vibrate at all')
that made his carbon transmitter (microphone) extremely effective.";
Mar[13] = "On this day in 1986 Microsoft stock went public,
raising $61 million (share price going from $21 to $28 on opening day).";
Mar[14] = "Petrus Musschenbrock, inventor of the
Leyden Jar, was born on this day in 1692.";
Mar[15] = "Thomas J. Watson became the top
executive at IBM, on this day in 1915.
He held the position for 41 years.";
Mar[16] = "On this day in 1906 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, there was
a performance of Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium,
perhaps the first musical synthesizer.";
Mar[17] = "A photovoltaic cell was first used in space
on the Vanguard 1, launched on this day in 1958.";
Mar[18] = "On this day in 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark used a shortwave transmitter to converse
with a government radio post about six miles away in what
is believed to have been the first broadcast by a 'ham' operator.";
Mar[19] = "Allen Newell was born on this day in 1927.
He was a pioneer computer scientist who created
the first list processing computer language (IPL).";
Mar[20] = "Lionel Bartold was born on this day in 1926.
He is an electric power engineer who
contributed to EHV and UHV transmission technology.";
Mar[21] = "Joseph Fourier was born on this day in 1768.
He was a mathematical physicist whose work became
important for the science of electrical engineering.";
Mar[22] = "Intel introduced the Pentium microprocessor on this day in 1993.";
Mar[23] = "On this day in 1906 John Turton Randall was born.
He was a physicist who, together with
Henry Boot, developed the cavity magnetron.";
Mar[24] = "Aleksandr Popov demonstrated wireless
transmission and reception on this day in 1896.";
Mar[25] = "Edison's new laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ was completed in this day in 1876.";
Mar[26] = "Friedrich Stier was born on this day in 1899.
He was an electric power engineer and professor.";
Mar[27] = "Michael N. Geselowitz, Staff Director, was born on this day";
Mar[28] = "The compact fluorescent lamp was launched publicly by Philips on this day in 1980.";
Mar[29] = "Elihu Thomson was born on this day in 1853,
He was an inventor of, among other things, an
arc-lighting system and an alternating current motor.";
Mar[30] = "Léon Thévénin was born on this day in 1857.
He was a telegraph engineer and
contributor to electrical circuit theory.";
Mar[31] = "On this day in 1931 Andre G. Clavier demonstrated
the feasibility of microwave transmission over a
40-kilometer path between Calais and Dover.";
Apr = new Array;
Apr[1] = "Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded
Apple Computer Company on this day in 1976.";
Apr[2] = "On this day in 1987 Microsoft introduced Windows 2.0.";
Apr[3] = "Motorola introduced the cell phone on this day in 1973.
The DynaTac weighed 28 ounces.";
Apr[4] = "On this day in 1915 Bell System engineers achieved
radiotelephone communication between Montauk Point, NY
and Wilmington, Delaware - a distance of 250 miles.";
Apr[5] = "On this day in 1988 AT&T introduced the first commercial
services under the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).";
Apr[6] = "Intelsat I, the first commercial communications satellite,
was launched on this day in 1965.";
Apr[7] = "On this day in 1928 Detroit Police began regular one-way
radio communications with its patrol cars.
This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Apr[8] = "Carl Gassner received a patent for
a galvanic battery on this day in 1886.";
Apr[9] = "On this day in 1943 Project PX to construct ENIAC began.";
Apr[10] = "Intel introduced the 486 chip on this day in 1989;
it contained 1.2 million transistors.";
Apr[11] = "On this day in 1921 was the first radio broadcast of a
sporting event: a 10-round, no decision fight
between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee on KDKA.";
Apr[12] = "On this day in 1901 Peter Cooper Hewitt gave
a public demonstration of his mercury-arc lamp.";
Apr[13] = "The first navigation satellite, Transit-1B,
was launched on this day in 1960.";
Apr[14] = "The first pocket calculator, the Pocketronic,
was put on the market on this day in 1971.";
Apr[15] = "The sinking of the Titanic on this day in
1912 put wireless telegraphy in the news.";
Apr[16] = "France Telecom unveiled a new consumer Internet service, Wanadoo,
designed to bring the Internet to a mass audience on this day in 1996.";
Apr[17] = "Norvin Green was born on this day in 1818.
He was the first President of AIEE in 1884.";
Apr[18] = "Perhaps the first microwave transmission of
television signals occurred on this day in 1945.";
Apr[19] = "India launched its first satellite, Aryabhata, on this day in 1975.";
Apr[20] = "The first test of SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground
Environment) occurred on this day in 1951.";
Apr[21] = "Jean-Baptiste Biot was born on this day in 1774.
He was a Physicist who, together with F?lix Savart,
formulated a law concerning the magnetic
field around a current-carrying conductor.";
Apr[22] = "Gaston Planté was born on this day in 1834.
He was a chemist who invented and developed a secondary galvanic-cell.";
Apr[23] = "The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a
screen was demonstrated in New York City on this day in 1896.";
Apr[24] = "MIT achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal,
between Camps Parks, CA and Westford, MA, on this day in 1962.";
Apr[25] = "Guglielmo Marconi was born on this day in 1874.
He was a pioneer of wireless telegraphy
and wireless-telegraphy entrepreneur.";
Apr[26] = "Arno A. Penzias was born on this day in 1933.
He is a pioneer of radio astronomy and discoverer,
with Robert Wilson, of the cosmic background radiation.";
Apr[27] = "Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on this day in 1791.
He was the inventor of Morse code for telegraphic signaling,
and developer and promoter of an electrical telegraph.";
Apr[28] = "Hertha Ayrton was born on this day in 1854.
She was a researcher of electric arcs and ripple effects.";
Apr[29] = "The popular radio series 'The Telephone Hour'
was first broadcast on this day in 1940.";
Apr[30] = "J.J. Thomson announced the discovery of the
electron at the Royal Institution on this day in 1897.";
May = new Array;
May[1] = "The first BASIC program ran on this day in 1964.";
May[2] = "Improved radiotelephone service to ships
at sea began when the liner 'Queen Elizabeth 2'
began her maiden voyage on this day in 1969.";
May[3] = "George P. Thomson was born on this day in 1892.
He was a contributor to electron wave theory.";
May[4] = "On this day in 1887 Emile Berliner applied
for a patent on what he called a 'Gramophone'.";
May[5] = "Melvin I. Olken was born on this day.";
May[6] = "The first practical stored-program computer,
EDSAC, first ran a program on this day in 1949.";
May[7] = "Intel introduced the Pentium II microprocessor on this day in 1997.";
May[8] = "Long distance telephone service was established
between New York and Denver on this day in 1911.";
May[9] = "Edward Weston was born on this day in 1850.
He was an inventor and founder of the
Weston Electrical Instruments Company.";
May[10] = "On this day in 1876 the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia officially opened to the public.
Electrical technologies, including Edison incandescent lamps
and the Bell telephone, were displayed.";
May[11] = "On this day in 1997 the IBM Computer 'Deep Blue'
defeated Gary Kasparov in a 6-game chess match.";
May[12] = "Konrad Zuse completed his Z3 machine, the world's first
fully functional electromechanical digital computer,
with 2400 relays, on this day in 1941.";
May[13] = "AIEE was founded on this day in 1884. Happy Birthday IEEE!";
May[14] = "What may well have been the first CT scan
of a patient was made on this day in 1965.";
May[15] = "Canada's first commercial long distance telephone line
opened between Hamilton and Dundas, Ontario, on this day in 1879.";
May[16] = "Theodore Maiman demonstrated the first laser on this day in 1960.";
May[17] = "On this day in 1918 an airplane squadron was, for the first time ever,
commanded by voice from the air.";
May[18] = "Oliver Heaviside was born on this day in 1850.
He was a telegrapher, physicist, and
contributor to the science of electrical engineering.";
May[19] = "Radiotelephone service from the United States
to China began on this day in 1937.";
May[20] = "William R. Hewlett was born on this day in 1913.
He was an electrical engineer, entrepreneur,
and pioneer of Silicon Valley.";
May[21] = "Hideo Yamashita was born on this day in 1899.
He was a computer pioneer and founder of the
Information Processing Society of Japan.";
May[22] = "On this day in 1973 Robert Metcalfe came up with the
idea of a local-area network that became the Ethernet";
May[23] = "John Bardeen was born on this day in 1908.
He was a physicist, co-inventor of the transistor,
and Nobel Laureate.";
May[24] = "On this day in 1844 Samuel Morse demonstrated
telegraphy by transmitting a message
on a newly constructed line between
Baltimore to Washington, D.C.";
May[25] = "The first telegraphed news dispatch, sent from
Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, appeared in the
'Baltimore Patriot' on this day in 1844.";
May[26] = "Lugwig Binder was born on this day in 1881.
He was a contributor to high voltage engineering.";
May[27] = "On this day in 1903 the Telefunken Wireless Company was founded.";
May[28] = "The first long distance test of digital television, between
Milwaukee, WI and Glenview, IL, occurred on this day in 1992.";
May[29] = "Thomas Edison received a patent for the 'Magnetic Separator'
of ground magnetic iron ore on this day in 1901.";
May[30] = "On this day in 1902 Nathan Stubblefield demonstrated
radio broadcasting at Fairmont Park in Philadelphia, PA.";
May[31] = "Construction of ENIAC started on this day in 1943
at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore School of Engineering.";
Jun = new Array;
Jun[1] = "On this day in 1890 approximately 45,000 census enumerators
began collecting the census schedules from the 13 million
households in the United States; for the first time
ever the processing of the information relied
on Herman Hollerith's punch-card machines.";
Jun[2] = "Henry J. Round was born on this day in 1881.
He was a British pioneer of radio technology and holder of 117 patents.";
Jun[3] = "On this day in 1875 the first speech sounds were transmitted by wire
(by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas A. Watson.)";
Jun[4] = "Bob Metcalfe founded the company 3Com
in his Palo Alto apartment on this day in 1979.";
Jun[5] = "One of the first personal computers,
the Apple II, went on sale on this day in 1977.";
Jun[6] = "Ferdinand Braun was born on this day in 1850.
He was a physicist, inventor of the cathode-ray
oscilloscope, and contributor to radio technology.";
Jun[7] = "On this day in 1921 Harold Beverage received
the patent on his 'wave antenna'
(later known as the 'Beverage Antenna'),
it became the standard for long-range receiving.";
Jun[8] = "Edwin Armstrong's patent on the superheterodyne
receiver was issued on this day in 1920.";
Jun[9] = "Thomas A. Edison was issued a
patent for a phonograph on this day in 1891.";
Jun[10] = "The first Bell System coaxial cable was put in service
for television use in New York City on this day in 1936.
The cable spanned 1.5 miles from the NBC studio
to the transmitter on the Empire State Building.";
Jun[11] = "Microsoft released MS-DOS 5.0 on this day in 1991.";
Jun[12] = "On this day in 1837 Cooke and Wheatstone
received a patent on electric telegraphy.";
Jun[13] = "James Clerk Maxwell was born on this day in 1831.
He was a physicist who formulated a theory of electromagnetism.";
Jun[14] = "The first UNIVAC was delivered to the
U.S. Bureau of the Census on this day in 1951.";
Jun[15] = "Worldwide direct dialing had its first public
demonstration on this day in 1966. The telephone call
was from Philadelphia, PA to Geneva, Switzerland.";
Jun[16] = "John W. Tukey was born on this day in 1915.
He, together with James Cooley, invented
Fast Fourier Transform, and coined the term 'bit'.";
Jun[17] = "Sir William Crookes was born on this day in 1832.
He was an investigator of electric discharges in
rarefied gases and inventor of an x-ray tube.";
Jun[18] = "Columbia Recording Corporation unveiled its long-playing
record (33 1/3 rpm, 12 in. diameter) on this day in 1948.";
Jun[19] = "Wallace J. Eckert was born on this day in 1902.
He pioneered scientific calculation using punched-card machines.";
Jun[20] = "Charles Concordia was born on this day in 1908.
He was a pioneer in the application of
analog and digital computers to power engineering.";
Jun[21] = "In 1948 the Manchester University Mark I Prototype became the first
stored-program computer to execute a program successfully.";
Jun[22] = "Konrad Zuse was born on this day in 1910.
He was an engineer who built some of the first digital
computers, and he founded a computer company.";
Jun[23] = "Alan Turing was born on this day in 1912.
He was a mathematical logician and computer developer,
contributing to the Colossus and ACE computers.";
Jun[24] = "On this day in 1910 the Wireless Ship Act of 1910 became law;
it required the capability of radio communication on
ocean-going ships carrying fifty or more persons.";
Jun[25] = "Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone
at the Centennial Exhibition on this day in 1876.";
Jun[26] = "The first purchase (Wrigley's chewing gum) made in a store
equipped with bar-code scanners occurred on this day in 1974";
Jun[27] = "On this day in 1996 Australia's Optus Vision launched the
first commercial cable system capable of delivering
television, telephone service and high-speed data links.";
Jun[28] = "The first official instruction to telephone operators to use
the phrase 'Number, Please' was issued on this day in 1895.";
Jun[29] = "The Bell Telephone Company was incorporated on this day in 1878.";
Jun[30] = "Bell Labs announced the invention of the transistor on this day in 1948.";
Jul = new Array;
Jul[1] = "The first SAGE air-defense center went
into operation on this day in 1958.";
Jul[2] = "On this day in 1921, Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion,
met challenger George Carpentier at Boyle's Thirty Acres in
Jersey City, NJ. RCA organized the broadcast
of the fight, attracting much attention to radio.";
Jul[3] = "On this day in 1846 the French government made the decision
to begin replacing optical telegraph lines with electrical ones.";
Jul[4] = "On this day in 1861 construction started on the telegraph line
between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California";
Jul[5] = "Dr. William Shockley announced on this day in 1951
that he had invention the junction transistor.";
Jul[6] = "On this day in 1924 a photograph was sent from New York to London
and back, using the RCA transatlantic radio system";
Jul[7] = "On this day in 1920, the radio compass was
first used near Norfolk, VA on a US Navy airplane.";
Jul[8] = "Britain implemented the country-wide 999 emergency telephone system,
for fire, police and EMS services on this day in 1937.";
Jul[9] = "Nikola Tesla was born on this day in 1856.
He was a developer of alternating current
power systems and a contributor to radio technology.";
Jul[10] = "On this day in 1962, TELSTAR, the first active
communications satellite was launched.";
Jul[11] = "The first transatlantic television transmission via the TELSTAR satellite
occurred on this date in 1962 between the ground stations in
Andover, Maine, Goonhilly, UK, and Pleumeur-Bodou, France.
This is a triple IEEE Milestone.";
Jul[12] = "On this day in 1989 AT&T and Intel agreed to jointly develop
personal computers that work in the AT&T computer network.";
Jul[13] = "On this day in 1977 a 25-hour blackout hit the New York City
area after lightning struck upstate power lines.";
Jul[14] = "Jay W. Forrester, head of the Whirlwind computer project and
an inventor of magnetic core memory, was born on this day in 1918";
Jul[15] = "On this day in 1996 MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news
network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet.";
Jul[16] = "Irmgard Flugge-Lotz was born on this day in 1903.
She was an engineer who contributed to automatic control.";
Jul[17] = "On this day in 1909, the Shoshone Transmission
Line began service carrying power to Denver.";
Jul[18] = "Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel on this day in 1968.";
Jul[19] = "The first line of the Paris Métro opened on this day in 1900.";
Jul[20] = "On this day in 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon.";
Jul[21] = "On this day in 1820 Hans Oersted published his
discovery of the magnetic effect of the current.";
Jul[22] = "One of the largest failures of computer programming,
caused by a single incorrect character in a huge FORTRAN
guidance program on the Mariner I, necessitated the
destruction of the spacecraft when it began traveling
erratically minutes after launch on this day in 1962.";
Jul[23] = "The Amiga personal computer was introduced on this day in 1985.";
Jul[24] = "Britton Chance was born on this day in 1913.
He has been a pioneer in radar development and electronic biophysics.";
Jul[25] = "The first 50,000 watt radio broadcast from station 2XAG
in Schenectady, NY, happened on this day in 1925.";
Jul[26] = "On this day in 1963, the first geosynchronous
satellite, Syncom II, was launched.";
Jul[27] = "The new transatlantic cable reached
Hearts Content, Newfoundland on this day in 1866.
This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Jul[28] = "On this day in 1914, at 11:00am, Austria-Hungary sent
a telegraph declaration of war to Serbia.
Belgrade, believing the telegraph to be a hoax,
failed to respond and World War I commenced.";
Jul[29] = "The first iron lung (electric respirator) was installed
in Bellevue Hospital, New York, on this day in 1927.";
Jul[30] = "Robert Noyce filed a patent for producing an integrated
silicon circuit using the planar process, on this day in 1959.";
Jul[31] = "After six previous failed attempts, the Ranger 7 spacecraft successfully
transmitted the first pictures of the moon's surface to the
earth through RCA-designed television cameras, on this day in 1964.";
Aug = new Array;
Aug[1] = "On this day in 1963 NASA announced that the new Syncom II
communications satellite had been used successfully
to transmit voices live between the US and Africa.";
Aug[2] = "On this day in 1926 the Vitaphone system for motion-picture and
sound debuted at the Warren Theatre in New York City,
with John Barrymore and Mary Astor in the demonstration film.";
Aug[3] = "In 1926 the first traffic lights in
Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus.";
Aug[4] = "In recognition of the death of Alexander Graham Bell
(2 August 1922), telephone service was suspended for one minute,
6:25pm to 6:26pm, on the entire telephone system of the United States
and Canada. The shutdown affected 13 million phones.";
Aug[5] = "On this day in 1954 the Knowles Electronics Company was incorporated.";
Aug[6] = "The first press telegram in Britain was sent on this day in 1844
to 'The Times' from Windsor Castle.";
Aug[7] = "On this day in 1944 the Harvard Mark I computer (the IBM ASCC)
was dedicated, marking the day in which large-scale, general-
purpose computers were first made known to the public at large.";
Aug[8] = "On this day in 1953 Jay Forrester's invention, the magnetic core
memory, was first installed in the Whirlwind computer.";
Aug[9] = "On this day in 1994 Netscape was incorporated.";
Aug[10] = "On this day in 1885 the first commercial electric streetcar
went into operation in Baltimore, Maryland.";
Aug[11] = "The IEEE History Center began operations on this day in 1980.";
Aug[12] = "The IBM Personal Computer was presented
to the news media on on this day in 1981.";
Aug[13] = "On this day in 1960, the first two-way telephone
conversation took place by satellite, utilizing ECHO-1A.";
Aug[14] = "On this day in 1888 a patent for the electric
meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger.";
Aug[15] = "On this day in 1877 Thomas Edison coined the phrase 'Hello' for
answering the telephone when he suggested it to the president
of the Telegraph Company. The phrase replaced
Alexander Graham Bell's originally suggested 'Ahoy.'";
Aug[16] = "The first joint meeting of the AIEE
and IEE was held on this day in 1900.";
Aug[17] = "On this day in 1917 Charles F. Kettering
patented the electric automobile starter.";
Aug[18] = "The British Parliament enacted the
Electric Lighting Act on this day in 1882.";
Aug[19] = "Philo T. Farnsworth was born on this day in 1906.
He was an inventor of an all-electronic television system.";
Aug[20] = "The first around-the-world telegram was transmitted from
New York City on this day in 1911; the transmission took
16 minutes to complete the 29,000 mile and 16-relay trip.";
Aug[21] = "Helen L. Thomas was born on this day in 1905.
She was the first woman to receive
a Ph.D. in the history of science.";
Aug[22] = "Willis R. Whitney was born on this day in 1868.
He was a pioneer in electric technology research,
and founder of the General Electric Research Laboratory.";
Aug[23] = "On this day in 1956 Bell Laboratories announced their experiment with
'picture phone' transmission that sends
pictures along with sound over regular telephone lines.";
Aug[24] = "On this day in 1891, transmission began of three-phase power from
Lauffen, Germany, to the international electrical exhibition
in Frankfurt-a distance of 177 km, demonstrating the
efficiency of AC power and justifying future transmission ventures.";
Aug[25] = "The world's first electric mine-locomotive, built by Siemens and Halske
for a mine at Zauckerode in Lower Saxony, made its
first official run on this day in 1882.";
Aug[26] = "On this day in 1895, the Adams Generating Station at
Niagara Falls went into operation. This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Aug[27] = "Francis Lydall was born on this day in 1872.
He was the inventor of an AC three-phase motor.";
Aug[28] = "The first commercial message on the radio was broadcast
on this day in 1922, by station WEAF in New York.";
Aug[29] = "On this day in 1831 Michael Faraday recorded in his notebook his
discovery of electromagnetic induction.";
Aug[30] = "John Mauchly was born on this day in 1907.
He was a pioneer in electronic computing and designer,
with J. Presper Eckert, of the ENIAC, EDVAC, and UNIVAC computers.";
Aug[31] = "Hermann Helmholtz was born on this day in 1821.
He was a physicist who pioneered scientific
investigations of electrical technologies.";
Sep = new Array;
Sep[1] = "Francis W. Aston was born on this day in 1877.
He was a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
and a developer of the mass spectrograph.";
Sep[2] = "Wilhelm Ostwald was born on this day in 1853.
He was a physical chemist who made important contributions to electrochemistry.";
Sep[3] = "A cash-dispensing machine, Docutel, made its
debut in New York City on this day in 1969.";
Sep[4] = "Edison's Pearl Street Station (NYC) came into service at 3pm EST on this day in 1882.";
Sep[5] = "Frank B. Jewett was born on this day in 1879.
He was a prominent electrical engineer and long-time President of Bell Telephone Laboratories.";
Sep[6] = "Ernst Weber was born on this day in 1901.
He became IEEE's first President in 1963.";
Sep[7] = "David Packard was born on this day in 1912.
He was the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.";
Sep[8] = "On this day in 1987 Microsoft shipped
its first CD-ROM application: MS Bookshelf.";
Sep[9] = "Luigi Galvani was born on this day in 1737.
He was the discoverer of what came to be called galvanic electricity.";
Sep[10] = "Arthur H. Compton was born on this day in 1892.
He was the discoverer of the Compton Effect
(scattering of a photon by an electron.)";
Sep[11] = "On this day in 1940 George Stibitz demonstrated his Complex Number Calculator
(also known as the Bell Labs Model I), located in New York City, at the American
Mathematical Association meeting at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
via a teletype terminal; this may be the first demonstration of remote computing.";
Sep[12] = "Jack Kilby made an integrated circuit, consisting
of 3 phase-shift oscillators in germanium on this day in 1958.";
Sep[13] = "On this day in 1845 Michael Faraday recorded
what would become the 'Faraday Effect'.";
Sep[14] = "Alexander Meissner was born on this day in 1883.
He was a radio engineer and developer of an electron-tube oscillator.";
Sep[15] = "Alfred N. Goldsmith was born on this day in 1888.
He was a radio and motion-picture engineer and
one of the founders of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE).";
Sep[16] = "Jacob Schick was born on this day in 1877.
He was the inventor of an electric razor.";
Sep[17] = "On this day in 1922 the first 'Soviet' radio concert,
inaugurating 'Soviet' broadcasting, occurred.";
Sep[18] = "John W. Cooley was born on this day in 1926.
He is a contributor to digital signal processing
and co-inventor of Fast Fourier Transform.";
Sep[19] = "Wilhelm Schoemilch was born on this day in 1870.
He was an engineer who invented the Schloemilch cell, an electrolytic diode.";
Sep[20] = "On this day in 1786 Galvani observed that metal in
contact with nerves and muscle of a frog's legs can cause convulsions.";
Sep[21] = "On this day in 1900 Charles Steinmetz
proposed that GE establish a research laboratory.";
Sep[22] = "Michael Faraday was born on this day in 1791.
He was a discoverer of electromagnetic induction.";
Sep[23] = "On this day in 1974 the BBC began regular CEEFAX teletext service.";
Sep[24] = "John Stone Stone was born on this day in 1869.
He was a physicist and an inventor of a wireless signaling system.";
Sep[25] = "On this day in 1956 the world's first transatlantic telephone cable went into service.";
Sep[26] = "On this day in 1887 Emile Berliner applied for a patent on a
flat-disk recorder and player. He called the device the 'gramophone'.";
Sep[27] = "On this day in 1918 Sir Martin Ryle was born.
He was a radio astronomer and inventor of a phase switching method.";
Sep[28] = "Samuel F.B. Morse patented his telegraph on this day in 1837.";
Sep[29] = "On this day in 1962 Canada launched Alouette-I,
its first satellite. This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Sep[30] = "On this day in 1882 the world's first hydroelectric station, the Vulcan
Plant, began operations in Appleton, WI. This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Oct = new Array;
Oct[1] = "Godfrey Hounsfield produced the first CT image of a patient on this day in 1971.";
Oct[2] = "On this day in 1925 John Logie Baird succeeded
in televising an imperfect image of a person.";
Oct[3] = "A patent for one of the first motorized
vacuum cleaners was issued on this day in 1899.";
Oct[4] = "John Vincent Atanasoff was born on this day in 1903.
He was an inventor, with Clifford Berry, of an
electronic computer, The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC).";
Oct[5] = "Louis Jean Lumiere was born on this day in 1864.
He was co-inventor of a motion-picture projector.";
Oct[6] = "On this day in 1987 Microsoft announced its first Windows application: Excel.";
Oct[7] = "On this day in 1954 IBM displayed a large all-transistor calculator
requiring only 5% of the power of comparable electronic one.";
Oct[8] = "On this day in 1888 Edison wrote a patent caveat for the 'kinetoscope',
this, in his words, 'does for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear'.";
Oct[9] = "On this day in 1938 Bell Labs demonstrated the first FM radio altimeter.";
Oct[10] = "On this day in 1980 the Very Large Array (VLA) radio
telescope network in New Mexico was dedicated.";
Oct[11] = "The Great London World's Fair closed on this day in 1851,
it had more than six million visitors.";
Oct[12] = "Nikola Tesla filed a patent for the
'electric magnetic motor' on this day in 1877.";
Oct[13] = "On this day in 1953 a patent was issued to Samuel Bango of
New York for the first burglar alarm using ultrasonic sound.";
Oct[14] = "On this day in 1878 a soccer match was
played under arc lights in Sheffield, England.";
Oct[15] = "Johann Kremenezky was born on this day in 1850.
He was an electrical engineer and entrepreneur,
and leading manufacturer of incandescent lights.";
Oct[16] = "John C. McPherson was born on this day in 1908.
Dr. McPherson was a pioneer in the use of tabulating machinery
for scientific computing and development of software systems";
Oct[17] = "The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed on this day in 1919";
Oct[18] = "A.A. Campbell-Swinton was born on this day in 1863.
He was a developer of electric power, promoter of the
use of x-rays in medicine, and contributor to television technology.";
Oct[19] = "Almon Breese Strowger was born on this day in 1839.
His invention of an automatic telephone-
switching system was widely adopted.";
Oct[20] = "Giovanni Pirelli died on this day in 1922.
He founded the Pirelli Company, a major manufacturer of wire and cable.";
Oct[21] = "Elmer A. Sperry was born on this day in 1860.
He was an inventor, and developer of gyrocompasses
and gyrostabilizers, and founder of several companies,
including the ancestor of the present Sperry Corporation.";
Oct[22] = "ENIAC ceased operations on this day in 1955";
Oct[23] = "William David Coolidge was born on this day in 1873.
He was a General Electric researcher famous for his invention of
ductile tungsten (for light bulb filaments) and for development of x-rays tubes.";
Oct[24] = "Wilhelm Eduard Weber was born on this day in 1804.
He was a physicist who contributed to the precision
measurement of electrical quantities and who,
together with Carl Gauss, invented an electric telegraph.";
Oct[25] = "Matthäus Hipp was born on this day in 1813.
He was the inventor of a reliable electric clock.";
Oct[26] = "John E. Parker was born on this day in 1900.
He was one of the founders of the pioneering
computer company Engineering Research Associates.";
Oct[27] = "On this day in 1904 the New York subway was first opened to the public";
Oct[28] = "William H. Gates III was born on this day in 1955.
He is the creator, together with Paul Allen,
of the MS-DOS operating system.";
Oct[29] = "Abram F. Ioffe was born on this day in 1880.
He was a contributor to the science and technology of semiconductors.";
Oct[30] = "Galileo Ferraris was born on this day in 1847.
He was a pioneer of polyphase AC power systems.";
Oct[31] = "Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was born on this day in 1828.
He was a chemist, physicist, and inventor of an incandescent lamp.";
Nov = new Array;
Nov[1] = "Edison executed his first patent on a
carbon-filament lamp on this day in 1879.";
Nov[2] = "Radio station KDKA began broadcasting at 8:00 pm on this day in 1920.";
Nov[3] = "Nick Holonyak was born on this day in 1926.
He discovered phonon-assisted tunneling
and developed a light-emitting diode.";
Nov[4] = "The first electrified subway in London opened on this day in 1890.";
Nov[5] = "Michael L. Dertouzos was born on this day in 1936.
He was a computer scientist, inventor, and MIT professor.";
Nov[6] = "On this date in 1780 Luigi Galvani observed convulsions
in a frog that was in the vicinity of an electrical machine.";
Nov[7] = "On this date in 1910 Alan Swinton, addressing the
Röntgen Society of London, described in
detail an electronic television system.";
Nov[8] = "On this day in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovered x-rays.";
Nov[9] = "On this day in 1965 a massive blackout affected
five U.S. states and one Canadian province.";
Nov[10] = "Work began at the MIT Radiation Laboratory (the principal site of
U.S. radar development during World War II) on this day in 1940.";
Nov[11] = "Samuel Insull was born on this day in 1859.
He was private secretary to Thomas Edison, later president of
Chicago Edison and public-utilities magnate.";
Nov[12] = "John W. Strutt III was born on this day in 1842.
He was a researcher in electromagnetic phenomena
and a contributor to the establishment of electrical standards.";
Nov[13] = "A telegraph cable laid between Dover and Calais went into public service on this day in 1851.";
Nov[14] = "The BBC made its first radio broadcast on this day in 1922.";
Nov[15] = "Intel announced its first microprocessor, the 4004, on this day in 1971.";
Nov[16] = "Christopher Strachey was born on this day in 1916.
He was a pioneer computer designer,
programmer, and professor of computer science.";
Nov[17] = "Erwin Tomash was born on this day in 1921.
He was instrumental in establishing the Charles Babbage Institute.";
Nov[18] = "On this day in 1929 Vladimir Zworykin presented his new
'kinescope' (a television picture-tube) in a lecture to the IRE.";
Nov[19] = "Gustave-Auguste Ferrié was born on this day in 1868.
He was a pioneer in radio technology.";
Nov[20] = "Otto von Guericke was born on this day in 1602.
He invented an electrostatic generator.";
Nov[21] = "On this day in 1931 AT&T inaugurated
the Teletypewriter Exchange Service (TWX).";
Nov[22] = "William Stanley was born on this day in 1858.
He was a developer of alternating-current power systems.";
Nov[23] = "Louis Glass equipped an Edison phonograph with a nickel-in-the-slot
operating device and a listening tube, and on this day in 1889
he placed the machine in the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco.";
Nov[24] = "Hendrik C.A. van Duuren was born on this day in 1903.
He was a radio engineer who contributed
to the development of digital techniques.";
Nov[25] = "Harold Chestnut was born on this day in 1917.
He was a General Electric engineer and
contributor to automatic control technology.";
Nov[26] = "Norbert Wiener was born on this day in 1894.
He was the founder of the field of cybernetics.";
Nov[27] = "George A. Campbell was born on this day in 1870.
He was a communications engineer and inventor of a wave filter.";
Nov[28] = "An arc lamp was demonstrated on this day in 1848
with the lighting of the portico of the National Gallery in London.";
Nov[29] = "John Ambrose Fleming was born on this day in 1849.
He was a contributor to the science of electrical engineering
and the inventor of a diode electron tube.";
Nov[30] = "Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on this day in 1858.
He was a physiologist and physicist who
contributed to the development of wireless telegraphy.";
Dec = new Array;
Dec[1] = "Valdemar Poulsen filed a patent application
for magnetic recording on this day in 1898.";
Dec[2] = "Peter C. Goldmark was born on this day in 1906.
He developed the long-playing (LP) record.";
Dec[3] = "On this day in 1913 Lee de Forest presented the paper
'The Audion-detector and amplifier' at an IRE Meeting in New York";
Dec[4] = "Robert Adler was born on this day in 1913.
He was a leader in the development of
electron-beam tubes and ultrasonic devices.";
Dec[5] = "Eberhard Spenke was born on this day in 1905.
He was a researcher who, at the Siemens laboratory
for semiconductor research, developed
a practical method of producing silicon crystals.";
Dec[6] = "Charles M. Hall was born on this day in 1863.
He was the inventor of an electrolytic process for producing aluminum.";
Dec[7] = "The SCR-270b radar at the Opana radar site, Oahu, Hawaii,
successfully tracked incoming Japanese aircraft
on this day in 1941. This is an IEEE Milestone.";
Dec[8] = "Julius Bernstein was born on this day in 1839.
His work was the beginning of modern bioelectrochemistry.";
Dec[9] = "Grace Murray Hopper was born on this day in 1906.
She was a developer of compiler programs and programming languages.";
Dec[10] = "Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born on this day in 1815.
She was the conceptual programmer of Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine and promoter of Babbage's work.";
Dec[11] = "Emil Rathenau was born on this day in 1838.
He was a German industrialist and founder,
with Werner von Siemens, of the Telefunken Company.";
Dec[12] = "On this day in 1901 Marconi received a wireless signal
at St. John's, Newfoundland, from Poldhu, Cornwall";
Dec[13] = "Werner von Siemens was born on this day in 1816.
He was a German electrical engineer who became
a major manufacturer of electrical equipment.";
Dec[14] = "The world's first transatlantic optical fiber cable system,
TAT 8, was opened for service between Europe
and North American on this day in 1988.";
Dec[15] = "The BBC was incorporated on this day in 1922.";
Dec[16] = "Johann W. Ritter was born on this day in 1776.
He was a physicist and pioneer of electrochemistry who,
in 1803, constructed the first storage battery.";
Dec[17] = "Arthur E. Kennelly was born on this day in 1861.
He was president of both AIEE and IRE. He contributed
to EE theory, particularly the definitive application of
complex-number theory to alternating-current circuits.";
Dec[18] = "Edwin H. Armstrong was born on this day in 1890.
He was a radio engineer, inventor of the regenerative, superheterodyne, and
superregenerative circuits, and developer of frequency-modulation transmission.";
Dec[19] = "On this day in 1882, in New York City, Charles Brush demonstrated
his mixed system (arc lights and incandescent lamps supplied by
a power system that used dynamos and storage batteries) to the public.";
Dec[20] = "Robert J. Van de Graaff was born on this day in 1901.
He was a physicist, inventor of the Van de Graaf
generator and the insulating-core transformer,
and developer of a high-energy x-ray generator.";
Dec[21] = "Francis (Tom) Bacon was born on this day in 1904.
He was a developer of fuel cells and is credited
with the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell.";
Dec[22] = "Thomas H. 'Tommy' Flowers was born on this day in 1905.
He built the cryptanalytic computer Colossus and
was a contributor to electronic telephone switching.";
Dec[23] = "On this day in 1947, engineers gave a demonstration
of the transistor for other Bell Labs personnel.";
Dec[24] = "Reginald Fesseden made a demonstration of
radiotelephony from Brant Rock, MA on this day in 1906";
Dec[25] = "Claude Chappe was born on this day in 1763.
He invented and helped implement a semaphore telegraph.";
Dec[26] = "Charles Babbage was born on this day in 1791.
He was an inventor of calculating machines, especially
for the purpose of creating mathematical tables.";
Dec[27] = "Bell Telephone Laboratories was formed on this day in 1924";
Dec[28] = "John von Neumann was born on this day in 1903.
He was a mathematical physicist and computer pioneer.";
Dec[29] = "On this day in 1923 Vladimir Zworykin filed a patent application
(No. 683,337) on his Iconoscope, a television camera..";
Dec[30] = "John Logie Baird demonstrated his night-vision television system
to the Royal Institution on this day in 1926";
Dec[31] = "Clarence Hickman demonstrated a prototype magnetic recording machine
at Bell Labs on this day in 1930";
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