Profile America: Source Notes
Spam, the unsolicited email message, debuted this month in 1978, and the World Wide Web has spread its infamy everywhere.
Technology
Profile America: Beginning The Spinning
The first disc-type phonograph record was demonstrated publicly on this date in 1888.
Profile America: The Mighty Mouse
On this date in 1981, the Xerox Corporation introduced the mouse to the commercial computing world.
Profile America: Solar Power
On this date in 1954, Bell Laboratories in New York announced the prototype manufacture of a new solar battery.
Profile America: Teflon
Slippery Teflon revolutionized cooking utensils in the 1960s. Discovered this week in 1938 and developed by Roy Plunkett of the DuPont Company.
Profile America: Mobile Computing
MOBILE COMPUTER Sunday, March 27 — A triumph of mobile computing was achieved on this date in 1961. A division of the Sperry Rand Corporation equipped a trailer truck to haul a UNIVAC I computer from New York City down […]
Profile America: Lighting Up the Night In Wabash
LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT Wednesday, March 23 — The first town in America to have its streets illuminated by electric lights wasn’t one of the familiar, Eastern metropolises that loom in our history. That distinction instead went to the […]
NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams Returns International Space Station
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2016 — NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is now the first American to become a three-time, long-term resident of the International Space Station. He arrived at the orbiting laboratory with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space […]
LiquidTalent Bringing Tech Opportunities To The Bronx
Tech Innovation And the Future of Work by Koi Germany, Jr. Jobs, much like the rest of the world, have become increasingly digitized. Professions in the tech field continue to flourish year over year, freelance work is at an […]
City Agency Celebrates Pi Day and Girls in STEAM Careers
Program celebrated female engineers during Pi day and Women’s History Month Long Island City – In celebration of Pi day and Women’s History Month, the New York City Department of Design and Construction’s STEAM education initiative hosted 20 female […]
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission
NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 […]
Profile America: First Telephone Directory
FIRST TELEPHONE DIRECTORY In the early days of the telephone, knowing who had one and what the number was quickly became a problem. The first telephone directory in the U.S. was published on this date in 1878 in New […]
NYC VOTES RELEASES VOTER GUIDE TO CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 17 SPECIAL ELECTION
The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) announces the release of the official NYC Votes Voter Guide for the special election in Bronx Council District 17 that will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. The online guide provides non-partisan […]
Frankly Speaking: Internet Censorship on the Rise
Internet Censorship on the Rise Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., J.D. Free speech on the internet continues to take a pounding on several key fronts. Under pressure from heavy handed governments abroad and threats of lawsuits and left wing agitation […]
Profile America: First American Computer
The First American Computer For many Americans nowadays, it’s hard to conceive of life without computers. But such a life is within the living memory of America’s seniors. The first electronic computer was publicly demonstrated on Valentine’s Day […]
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