On Today’s Show!
- Apple’s First attempt at the iPhone
- NASA extends the rover project (again)
- What happens if you steal from a Technorama fan
Friends in Tech Halloween Special – It’s the Great Server Chuck and Kreg!
On This Day in Tech History
- 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
- 1911 – Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.
- 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
- 1957 – the USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
- 1995 – A total solar eclipse is visible from Iran, India, Thailand, and SE Asia.
- 1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
- 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
Births
- 1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
- 1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
- 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
- 1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
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1920 – Marcel-Paul Sch
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