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On this day in 1844 Samuel Morse demonstrated telegraphy by transmitting a message on a newly constructed line between Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

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16-bit Monolithic DAC	Ampex Videotape Recorder - 1956	Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., the First 60 Years, 1925-1984	Bell Telephone Laboratories 1925 - 1984	Birthplace of the Bar Code, 1948
Birthplace of the SPICE Circuit Simulation Program, 1971	Color Filter Array	Creating the Foundation of the Data Storage Flash Memory Industry
Cruft HighTension Laboratory, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science	DISCOVERY OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 1911	Development of the Erbium-Doped Optical Fiber Amplifier
Eel River Back-to-Back High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972	First 500 MeV proton beam from the worlds largest cyclotron	First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
First Industrial Scale Nuclear Reactor	First Integrated PWM Controller for Switching Power Supplies	First Millimeter-wave Communication Experiments by J.C. Bose, 1894-96
First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier	First Practical Field Emission Electron Microscope, 1972-1984	First Practical Photovoltaic Solar Cell
First RISC Microprocessor	First Radio Astronomical Observations Using VLBI, 1967	First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks
First Technical Meeting of AIEE 1884	First television broadcast in Western Canada	Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOSA) for electric power systems,1975
Grumman Lunar Module	High-Temperature Superconductivity	High Temperature Superconductivity
IEEE Milestone for the Demonstration of the First Working Laser in Malibu, CA	International Standardization of G3 Facsimile in 1980	Invention of Holography by Dennis Gabor
Invention of Public-key Cryptography	Invention of the First Practical Floating Gate EEPROM, 1976-1977	John Logie Baird Inventions in Television
Krka – Šibenik Electric Power System	LORAN	Line spectrum pair (LSP), an essential technology for high-compression speech coding, 1975
Mainline Electrification of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1895	Marconi First Wireless Experiments, 1894-1895	Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) by Howard Aiken and IBM
Mercury Spacecraft MA-6	Pearl Street Station	RAMAN EFFECT
Rincon del Bonete Hydroelectric Plant and Transmission System	SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment)	SPARC RISC Architecture Introduction, 1987
Sharp 14-inch thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) for TV, which has ushered in TFT LCD industry	TIROS 1	The 20 inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes
The Birthplace of Silicon Valley	The First Breaking of Enigma Code by the Team of Polish Cipher Bureau, 1932-39	The First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier
The Floating Gate EEPROM, 1976-1978	The first laptop personal computer, 1984-1986	The first satellite broadcasting to the public
The world’s first low-loss optical fiber for telecommunications	Toshiba T1100, a pioneering contribution to the development of laptop PC, 1985	Unidirectional Microphone
Whirlwind Computer	Wireless Transmission between Fixed Antenna and Moving Trains, 1913	Worlds First Reliable High Voltage Power Fuse

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