On this Show
- Boy uses light saber to defend mom
- Make your own CAT6 cable tutorial
- What happens when flickr gets too many pictures
On This Day in Tech History
- 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed
by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is
rounded up and incinerated. - 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred at St Paul’s Cathedral.
- 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
- 1863 – The first section of the London Underground Railway opens — between Paddington and Farringdon Street.
- 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first
battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. - 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
- 1941 – First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
- 1986 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak exits the instant camera business.
- 2001 – Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
Births
- 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
- 1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
- 1868 – S. P. L. S
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