The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.
The Altair 8800 sparks the microcomputer revolution Read more
Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women’s music.
Five feminists create the first women’s owned-and-operated record label, Olivia Records Read more
Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Cooper placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Motorola employee Martin Cooper makes the world’s first cell phone call Read more
Pong quickly became a success and was the first commercially successful video game, which helped to establish the video game industry along with the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game Read more
By the 1980s, plastic recycling was widely practiced in many communities across the United States.
World’s first plastic recycling mill opens in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Read more
Many argue that this event marks the true invention of PV technology because it was the first instance of a solar technology that could actually power an electric device for several hours of a day.
On this day in 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announces it has developed a tubeless tire, a technological innovation that would make automobiles safer and more efficient.
B.F. Goodrich Co. announces development of tubeless tire Read more
Nylon was first used commercially in a nylon-bristled toothbrush in 1938, followed more famously in women’s stockings or “nylons” which were shown at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and first sold commercially in 1940.
DuPont invents nylon, the world’s first commercially viable synthetic textile Read more
The assembly line, driven by conveyor belts, reduced production time for a Model T to just 93 minutes by dividing the process into 45 steps.
Ford Motor Company institutes world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Read more
She served on the board of Abbott Laboratories from 1900 to 1908 and from 1911 to 1924 before the company was publicly listed, blazing a trail for female business leaders for decades to come.
