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Profile America: Nuclear Power

Tuesday, July 18 — This week 62 years ago in West Milton, New York, an example of turning swords into plowshares was generated. That was when the Atomic Energy Commission sold electric power from a General Electric nuclear reactor. The buyer […]

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Profile America: Nuclear Power — Atoms for Peace 

On this date in 1955, the Atomic Energy Commission sold electric power from a General Electric nuclear reactor.

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

Profile America: First Home Television Sets

FIRST HOME TV “SETS” Profile America — Couch potatoes can trace their roots to this date in 1928 when three experimental television sets were installed in private homes in Schenectady, New York. Not that there was much to see, the […]