Sep 18, 2024
Powel Crosley, Jr. – Scientist of the Day
Powel Crosley, Jr., an American inventor and industrialist, was born on September 18, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Powel Crosley, Jr. – Scientist of the Day
Powel Crosley, Jr., an American inventor and industrialist, was born on September 18, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Scientist of the Day—Charles Steinmetz
Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz, an electrical engineer, mathematician, and industrial researcher, was born on April 9, 1865.
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#Repost @desirdigitalcollective ・・・ #Repost @amhistorymuseum ・・・ Today in 2007: The first iPhone is released. The "Going Mobile" section of our exhibition American Enterprise explores the roles and impacts of mobile technology. 📱 As technology went digital, American’s information devices became more mobile. Immediate access to everything helped spawn a social media revolution, gave consumers greater choices, and sped up business. Some loved being connected, but others worried that they could never escape work or surveillance. From a 1977 calculator watch to a 3G iPhone used by journalist Andy Carving to cover the Arab Spring, many of these devices still have stories to tell, even if their batteries are long dead. See the link in our profile to meet each device! #GoingMobile #HistTech #RetroTech #iPhone #BusinessHistory #tbt (at The Idea Center)
There is a great new exhibit at The College of New Jersey that displays their David Sarnoff Collection. (David Sarnoff was the chairman of RCA and the founder of NBC.) The exhibit has all kinds of great RCA, engineering, computing, and TV history artifacts on display, including this cathode ray tube and TV test pattern, early computers and memory chips, and a ton of really great photographs, including many of women working in the industry. If you can’t make it to the exhibit, you can also learn more and see some artifacts on their website and in this great feature in the IEEE Spectrum.
My favorite story from the exhibit was about the object in this fourth image, the image orthicon tube. Originally used by the US Navy for missile guidance (for which it turns out it wasn’t actually very good), the image orthicon tube eventually found its best use as a crucial component in television design. Its diminutive nickname - “immy” - was adapted into “Emmy” when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was looking to name their awards. Just another example of the pervasive influence of military engineering and technologies into American cultural life. (It’s not just the internet, people!)
The exhibit also has David Sarnoff’s actual Emmy award statue, if you would be as excited as I was to see one in the (gold-plated) flesh.
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