blue water massey
Well-known Member
Jan. 7
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film
1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS"
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM
Birthdays:
1800 Millard Fillmore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 13th President of the United States
1837 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company
Deaths:
1658 Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony
1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer
Thought for the day:
" That must be wonderful! I dont understand it at all. "
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film
1904 The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS"
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM
Birthdays:
1800 Millard Fillmore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 13th President of the United States
1837 Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company
Deaths:
1658 Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony
1943 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer
Thought for the day:
" That must be wonderful! I dont understand it at all. "