Today in History - December 26, 1982 - TIME’s Person of the Year is a computer. History has always pondered whether the future was propelled by the movement of the masses, the fine control of the elite, or the inevitable flow of society. However, before now no one ever questioned whether history was centered around [...]

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Today in History - December 21, 1807 - Fourier introduces his series at the Paris Institute. Joseph Fourier’s memoir, On the Propagation of Heat in Solid Bodies, was read to the Paris Institute. It introduced the expansion of functions into trigonometric series which are now called Fourier series.
The Fourier series allows periodic functions to be [...]

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Today in History - December 6, 1877 - Thomas Edison made the first recording of a human voice, singing “Mary had a Little Lamb,” on his tinfoil “talking machine”, the phonograph. The phonograph would ultimately lay the groundwork for future generations of audio recording and playing technologies such as the juke box, compact discs [...]

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Today in History - November 21, 1877 - Edison announces the invention of his “talking machine”, the phonograph. Also on this date in 1995, Disney releases “Toy Story”, the first full-length movie created entirely by computer animation.
Thomas Alva Edison, nicknamed the “Wizard of Menlo Park”, had 1,093 patents to his name. Some of Edison’s [...]

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Today in History - “ November 18, 1963 - “Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone, eventually to replace the rotary dial telephone that had dominated the market since its invention in 1891 when Almon Strowger patented the twin inventions of the automatic telephone exchange and the pulse-driven telephone in the home. Although early prototypes [...]

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