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- Steve Wozniak gets pulled over
- Wil Wheaton is indicted
- Check out the Dorm Room hacks before heading off to school
On This Day in Tech History
- 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
- 1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- 1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world’s first rack railway.
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world’s first motorcycle.
- 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded.
- 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
- 1962 – The lower deck of the George Washington Bridge opens in New York and New Jersey
- 1970 – First flight of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the Boeing 747.
- 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft f
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