31 December 2008
- 17:5917:59, 31 December 2008 diff hist +216 N HTTP New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' In July 1992, a new Internet protocol, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), was introduced to improved the effic...
- 17:5317:53, 31 December 2008 diff hist +245 N Transatlantic Optical Cable New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' On 14 December 1988, TAT 8, the first transatlantic optical fiber cable system was completed across the Atlantic, c...
- 16:1216:12, 31 December 2008 diff hist +169 N Personal Computer New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' New York, New York. The IBM Personal Computer was presented to the news media on 12 August 1981.
- 16:0916:09, 31 December 2008 diff hist +306 N Lempel-Ziv Compression Algorithm New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Haifa, Israel. Algorithm In 1977, Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv develop a highly flexible algorithm that compresses ...
- 16:0816:08, 31 December 2008 diff hist +366 N VHS Standard New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' On 9 September 1976, the first VHS model videotape recorder was announced. The standard had been developed at the Y...
- 16:0716:07, 31 December 2008 diff hist +316 N Ethernet New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Palo Alto, California. On 22 May 1973 Robert Metcalfe, working at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, presented for ...
- 16:0616:06, 31 December 2008 diff hist +130 Evolution of Cell Phone Technology No edit summary
- 15:5815:58, 31 December 2008 diff hist +352 N Charge-Coupled Device New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' United States. On 29 January 1970, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, of Bell Labs, submitted a paper on their i...
- 15:3615:36, 31 December 2008 diff hist +419 N ARPANET New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' United States. In January 1969 ARPA awarded a contract to Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) to design and construct a c...
- 15:3315:33, 31 December 2008 diff hist +426 N Quartz Watch New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.'''''<br> Seiko Corporation began developing quartz time-keeping devices in the late 1950s. By 1967, the company had deve...
- 15:3115:31, 31 December 2008 diff hist +379 N CMOS New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' At a meeting in October 1968 the Westinghouse Molecular Electronics division announced a new type of field-effect t...
- 15:3015:30, 31 December 2008 diff hist +122 Fiber Optics No edit summary
- 15:2615:26, 31 December 2008 diff hist +144 CAT, MRI, and Ultrasound No edit summary
- 15:2015:20, 31 December 2008 diff hist +319 SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) No edit summary
- 15:1615:16, 31 December 2008 diff hist +287 N Semiconductor Laser New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' "In September 1962 researchers from IBM, independently and almost simultaneously with researchers from General Elec...
- 15:1215:12, 31 December 2008 diff hist +296 N Packet Switching New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' MIT - Cambridge, Massachusetts. On 24 July 1961 MIT accepts Leonard Kleinrock's doctoral dissertation "Inform...
- 15:0615:06, 31 December 2008 diff hist +314 N Tunnel Diode New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Tokyo, Japan. In 1958, Leo Esaki publishes his invention of the Tunnel Diode, a highly flexible, very fast semicond...
- 15:0315:03, 31 December 2008 diff hist +23 Pacemaker No edit summary
- 15:0115:01, 31 December 2008 diff hist +100 Pacemaker No edit summary
- 14:5414:54, 31 December 2008 diff hist +289 N Sputnik New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Soviet Union. The first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched on 4 October 1957. The satellite contai...
- 14:4714:47, 31 December 2008 diff hist +425 N Electronic Music Synthesizer New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' In 1955, Harry Olson and Herbert Belar complete their work on the first music synthesizer at the RCA laboratories a...
- 14:4514:45, 31 December 2008 diff hist +317 N Silicon Transistor New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' On 26 January 1954 Morris Tanenbaum of Bell Labs first achieved amplification in an npn silicon transistor; this ma...
- 14:4314:43, 31 December 2008 diff hist +18 ACE Computer No edit summary
- 14:4214:42, 31 December 2008 diff hist +22 Electric Guitar No edit summary
- 14:4114:41, 31 December 2008 diff hist +350 N Computer Language Compiler New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts. In May 1952, Grace Hopper completes her work on the first compiler, ...
- 14:4014:40, 31 December 2008 diff hist +483 N Electric Guitar New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Beginning in 1943, Leo Fender, a radio repairman, and Doc Kaufman, a musician developed an inexpensive, mass produc...
- 14:3414:34, 31 December 2008 diff hist +143 Moog No edit summary
- 14:1814:18, 31 December 2008 diff hist +63 The Transistor and Portable Electronics No edit summary
- 14:1414:14, 31 December 2008 diff hist +119 The Transistor and Portable Electronics No edit summary
- 14:1114:11, 31 December 2008 diff hist +405 N ACE Computer New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' On 19 February 1946 Alan Turing delivered the complete design of the ACE, a stored-program computer. Turing may be ...
- 14:0814:08, 31 December 2008 diff hist +23 ENIAC No edit summary
30 December 2008
- 23:2423:24, 30 December 2008 diff hist +268 Communications Satellites No edit summary
- 23:1323:13, 30 December 2008 diff hist −31 Colossus No edit summary
- 23:1123:11, 30 December 2008 diff hist +138 Colossus No edit summary
- 23:0623:06, 30 December 2008 diff hist +412 N Traveling Wave Tube New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' University of Birmingham - Birmingham, England. In November 1943 Rudolf Kompfner first demonstrated amplification o...
- 23:0423:04, 30 December 2008 diff hist +5 Cavity Magnetron No edit summary
- 22:5922:59, 30 December 2008 diff hist +360 N Klystron New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Stanford University - Palo Alto, California. On 5 June 1937 Russell Varian conceived of the amplifying tube known t...
- 22:5822:58, 30 December 2008 diff hist +229 Radar No edit summary
- 22:3822:38, 30 December 2008 diff hist +226 Magnetic Tape No edit summary
- 22:2122:21, 30 December 2008 diff hist +400 N Yagi Antenna New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Japan. In 1926, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda published on the sensitive and highly-dire...
- 22:1722:17, 30 December 2008 diff hist +120 Iconoscope No edit summary
- 21:5821:58, 30 December 2008 diff hist +192 Superheterodyne Receiver No edit summary
- 21:4821:48, 30 December 2008 diff hist +188 N Radio Direction Finder New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Boulogne, France. In 1910, Bellini and Tosi develop one of the earliest successful radio direction finding antennas...
- 21:4721:47, 30 December 2008 diff hist +485 N De Forest Audion New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' United States. On 25 October 1906 Lee de Forest submitted a patent application on a "Device for amplifying feeble e...
- 21:4421:44, 30 December 2008 diff hist +511 N Fleming Valve New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' 16 November 1904. London, England. Beginning in the 1880s Professor John Ambrose Fleming of University College Lond...
- 21:4121:41, 30 December 2008 diff hist +360 N Kennelly-Heaviside Layer New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' United States and Britain. In 1902 Arthur Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently proposed the existence of an ...
- 21:3921:39, 30 December 2008 diff hist +540 EKGs and EEGs No edit summary
- 21:3221:32, 30 December 2008 diff hist +188 N Magnetic Recording New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' Copenhagen, Denmark. On 1 December 1898 Valdemar Poulsen filed his first patent application for magnetic recording....
- 21:2821:28, 30 December 2008 diff hist +523 N Wireless Telegraphy New page: '''''This article is a stub. You can help the GHN by expanding it.''''' England. Guglielmo Marconi began his wireless experiments in 1895, and on 2 June 1896 filed his provisional specifi...
- 21:1621:16, 30 December 2008 diff hist +73 Electrified Subway No edit summary