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Audience/Grade:	College Freshman-College Senior
Discipline(s):	General Engineering, Engineering Science
Special Topic(s):	History of Technology
Learning Resource Type:	Community - Blog
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Author(s):	Organization:Engineering Pathway - Digital Library in Engineering Education
Description:	Every day, the Engineering Pathway (EP) posts engineering and technology events in history on its website at www.engineeringpathway.com. Our "Events in History" blogs, authored by EP's Associate Editors and guests, describe these historical events and relate them to a modern context in engineering education. Each blog links to related engineering education resources in EP. Blogs can be searched by engineering discipline, by month or by a full text search. Each blog allows comments from the reader community.
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Has Components:	11-04-1946 Benjamin Palmer Patents Artificial Leg Technology 02-17-2010 Funeral for Analog TV 11-16-1965 Disney Launches Epcot Center, Community of the Future 06-12-1979 Gossamer Albatross crosses the English Channel 10-31-1941 Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial 02-25-1837 Thomas Davenport patents the electric motor and electric railway 01-31-1958 US Launches Their First Artificial Satellite 10-03-1899 Motorized vacuum cleaner patented 09-14-1959 First Spacecraft on the Moon 12-14-1967 Kornberg creates DNA in a test tube 09-15-1997 Google domain name registered 05-29-2009 John McMasters Blog: A Legacy of Sustaining Innovations in Biomimetic Aircraft Design and Engineering Education 03-01-1864 First African American woman to receive an American medical degree 07-29-1958 Signing of NASA Legislation 03-14-1987 First Pi Day is Celebrated 12-11-1997 The Kyoto Protocol is Signed 08-10-1846 The Smithsonian Institute and its New Civil Engineer Leader 02-13-1959 First Barbie doll goes on sale 09-20-1954 First FORTRAN program 05-23-1930 Plants First Patented 01-03-1957 World's First Electric Wristwatch is Released 04-20-1940 Scanning Electron Microscope First Demonstrated 05-28-1936 Turing Machines and Automata 02-29-1940 Ernest Lawrence accepts Nobel Prize in physics for the cyclotron 12-08-1993 First Functional GPS Developed 11-30-1886 Water and Power - Niagra Falls Becomes First Commercial AC Electric Power Plant 08-10-1846 The Smithsonian Institution: Then and Now 03-19-1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge Opens 07-31-1790 First U.S. Patent 07-20-1969 Apollo 40th Anniversary 11-01-1848 Opening of the First Medical School for Women 09-22 Engineering Education Blog: National Manufacturing Events 04-30-2009 Toyota Prius sales top 1 million unit 04-10-1662 Hooke's First Publication 12-01-1955 Rosa Parks Day marks service learning and the invention of the assembly line and hydroponics 02-12-2010 Computer Engineer Barbie Announced 08-09-1898 Diesel engines and environmental strategies 02-27-1932 Discovery of the Neutron 12-24-1979 First Ariane rocket launch 02-06-1959 Kilby Applies for Patent for Integrated Circuit 04-26-1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster 09-04-1998 Google is Founded 01-08-1889 - Hollerith patents tabulating machine 01-15-1955 First solar-heated and radiation-cooled house in the United States 10-09-1936 Hoover Dam Goes Online 05-22-1906 Wright Brothers' Patents 11-14-1985 The discovery of fullerenes is first published 02-11-1939 Lise Meitner published discovery of nuclear fission 01-17-1871 Cable car patented 02-03-1958 Rachael Carson Publishes the Silent Spring 11-12-1914 Theodore W. Richards wins Nobel Prize in chemistry 04-06-1948 Teflon is discovered 12-28-1886 Josephine Cochrane first commercially successful dishwasher; 1895 first public movie theatre 04-25-1961 Robert Noyce and Fairchild Awarded Patent for the Integrated Circuit 11-10-1983 First Documented Experimental Computer Virus 02-10-1874 First patent by African American Inventor Latimer 07-23-1995 National Inventors Hall of Fame Opens and Michael Jackson the Inventor 11-21-1877 Edison announces phonograph; 1965 Release of Toy Story - the first full-length computer animated movie 08-21-2010 Earth Environmental Debt Day 11-02-2000 First Crew of the International Space Station 12-13-1928 The clip-on tie is invented 04-21-1997 Leary and Roddenberry and inner and outer space 12-27-1571 Johannes Kepler is Born 12-12-1901 Marconi, Tide detergent, US copyright law and hovercraft patent 12-18-1958 First Communication Satellite 11-26-2003 Supersonic Concorde Makes its Last Flight 12-22-1885 Coney Island's gravity switchback roller coaster railway patented 05-13-1958 Velcro is Registered as a Trademark 10-10-1980 Very Large Array is dedicated 04-13-1960 First US Navigational Satellite 09-12-1958 First Integrated Circuit 06-23-1964 Kilby patents the Texas Instruments integrated circuit 02-17-1998 Voyager 1 becomes most distant human-made object in space 12-26-1982 Computer named "Person of the Year" in 1982 08-17-1807 First Voyage of Fulton's Steamboat 02-16-2005 Kyoto Goes into Effect 07-04-1997 Pathfinder lands on Mars 10-14-1947 First Supersonic Flight 12-16-1915 Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity 11-24-1859 Darwin Publishes His Theory of Evolution 07-31-2008 Longest Solar-powered Uninhabited Flight 12-17-1903 The Wright Brothers and Sister 06-04-1937 Innovation in Shopping Carts 11-22-1927 First Snowmobile Patent 02-14-1990 Voyager 1 takes first photo of our solar system 08-08-2007 First Teacher in Space 07-30-1959 Noyce files patent for the integrated circuit 01-12-2010 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti. 01-05-1892 Construction Begins on the Golden Gate Bridge 12-05-1879 Telephone Switching Enables Mass Telecommunications 11-18-1963 Bell Telephone Introduces Push Button Telephone 03-04 Women's History Month - Women Engineers, Computer Scientists and Inventors 03-13-1970 PDP-11 Minicomputer Introduced 10-07-1952 Bar Code is Patented 06-05-1977 Apple II Goes on Sale 11-28-1964 Mariner 4 launched as first probe to fly by Mars 10-27-1947 NYC Subway Opens 09-30-1935 Dedication of Hoover Dam 11-19-1969 Apollo 12 Mission Lands on the Moon 02-14-1946 ENIAC and Women in Computing 03-31-1889 Construction of the Eiffel Tower 07-22-1975 Gates and Allen License Basic 03-08-1775 Priestley discovers oxygen 01-06-1851 Foucault physically demonstrates that, yup, the Earth rotates! 09-05-1977 Voyager 1 is launched 01-24-1984 Apple Macintosh personal computer introduced 10-04-1913 Steel Treaters' Club (now American Society for Metals) is founded 04-08-1953 First Major 3D Movie 09-10-2008 Start-Up of CERN's Large Hadron Collider 02-01-1972 First hand-held calculator 08-28-1883 First Controlled Glider 07-12-1920 The Panama Canal Offically Opens 12-21-1807 Fourier Series Introduced 01-26-1697 Isaac Newton and Calculus of Variations 10-04-1957 Sputnik is Launched 06-21-1946 - United Nations Launches Commission on the Status of Women 03-08-1911 International Women's Day 01-01-1853 World's First Practical Steam Powered Fire Engine 01-05-1957 Spirit Rover Lands on Mars 07-13-2006 "Artificial Intelligence" Coined Fifty Years Ago 07-12-1872 The Real McCoy Patent of Locomotive Lubrication Cup 04-03-1973 First public cell phone call 03-30-1842 Ether First Used as Anesthesia 01-28-1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes After Launch 11-23-1992 10,000,000 Cellular Telephone Sold 08-23-1977 Gossamer Condor and Human-powered Flight 03-27-1933 Polyethylene is discovered 09-24-1889 Dial Time Recorder Patented 09-19-1982 Smiley's Birthday :-) 12-19-1972 Last moon landing and first broadcast from space 08-30-1983 First African-American in Space 11-09-1939 Ernest Lawrence Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for the Cyclotron 07-06-1997 Sojourner Rover Travels on Mars 08-12-1981 IBM Introduces the PC 12-30-1924 Hubble discovers a galaxy outside the Milky Way 02-22-1876 Johns Hopkins opens as first research university in America 03-03-1831 First African American to recieve a patent 01-26-1926 First Public Demonstration of Television 11-25-1867 Nobel Patents Dynamite 08-31-1921 Crop Dusting and Pesticides 08-15-1914 The Panama Canal and Ship Engineering 04-17-1946 High T-C Superconductivity in Ceramic is Discovered 11-13-1913 First modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob 10-11-1984 Women in Space 07-27-2010 Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crossing the Pacific 02-04 Black History Month 04-23-2009 Zoetrope is patented 01-13-1942 Ford Patents a Plastic Automobile 10-01-1958 NASA's First Day of Operation 07-17-1955 Disneyland Opens 06-09-1931 Goddard patents a rocket-powered airplane 01-14-2005 Huygens Probe Lands on Titan 12-25-1642 Newton and Celsius 10-21-1947 Portland Cement 04-14-1932 First Atom is Split 11-15-1968 Yale announces it will become coeducational 04-16-1813 Interchangeable Parts Revolutionized Manufacturing 04-22-1970 First Earth Day 05-27-2012 Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge 12-20-1899 Invention of the Singing Arc 05-01 Hero of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month is Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell 06-24-1963 First Television Recorder 12-31-1968 First flight of supersonic airline 03-22-1985 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 01-20-1986 First Martin Luther King Day 04-01-1976 Apple Computer formed 03-07-1979 Voyager 1 Discovers Jupiter's rings 01-11-1954 First television weather forecast 08-07-1944 Harvard Mark I largest electromechanical calculator ever built 02-23-1893 Diesel engine patented in Germany 11-27-1895 America's First Gas-Powered Automobile Race 08-02-1873 First Testing of San Francisco's Cable Cars 03-05-1991 Inventors, Innovators and Patents - 5 Millionth Patent is Issued 03-24-2009 First Ada Lovelace Day 09-12-1992 First African American Woman in Space 12-29-1891 "Today in History" Blog: Edison patents radio 01-07-1913 Burton Patents Thermal Cracking for Petroleum Refining 04-29-1998 10 Percent of the Amazon Rain Forest is Preserved 08-05-2012 Mars Rover Curiosity Lands 02-18-1901 Vacuum clearners, engineering design and prototype testing 05-05-1809 Mary Kies is First Woman to Receive U.S. Patent 11-08-1977 Three Gorges Dam Begins Construction 12-03-1984 Bhopal and Social Implications of Technology 05-27-1931 First Large-scale Wind Tunnel 02-02-1897 Ice Cream Scoop Invented 06-08-1940 Neptunium Discovered 06-26-1974 First barcode using UPC was scanned at grocery store 04-04-1975 Microsoft Founded? 09-29-1954 CERN Convention Ratified 07-14-1867 Nobel First Demonstrates Dynamite 02-07-1984 First untethered spacewalk 12-08-1968 Doug Engelbart's "Mother of all Demos" introduces the computer mouse, hyperlinks and windows 01-23-1996 Java programming language first released 05-03-1997 Kasparov wins first set of chess games against IBM's Deep Blue computer 11-11-1865 First female army surgeon awarded Medal of Honor in 1865 11-03-1900 First U.S. automobile show 04-11-1970 Apollo 13 is Launched 09-03-2003 Hubble begins photographing deepest space 12-09-1962 General Electric fires all Communist employees 08-13-1913 Stainless Steel is First Cast 09-25-1974 First Report that Freon Destroying Ozone Layer 08-27-2003 World's Largest Battery 11-17-1970 Invention of the Computer Mouse 05-16-1960 Maiman builds the first ruby laser 10-30-1894 First Time Card Recorder Patent 05-18-2004 Founding of the National Center for Women in Information Technology 06-27-1954 First Nuclear Power Plant 11-20-1866 Howard University Founded 12-02-1982 First artificial heart transplant and commercial nuclear power plant 04-24-1877 Dynamos and Motors Invention 12-10-1964, 1921, 1966 Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein and Robert Mulliken Awarded Nobel Prizes 10-18-1947 Discovery of the Structure of DNA 09-01-1873 First Cable Cars in San Francisco 12-04-1952 Smog kills 02-21-1984 Production of first non-freon refrgerators 11-05-1895 First U.S. Automobile Patent 05-20-1899 Founding of the American Physical Society 09-06-1819 The Blanchard Lathe Patent 08-19-1934 First All American Soap Box Derby 12-07-1988 Deadly earthquake, natural disasters, global warming and viewing Earth from space 06-17-2011 Saudi Women Defy Driving Ban 09-27-2003 First European mission to the moon 01-02-1959 "Today in History" Blog: First Space Ship to Escape the Earth's Gravity 12-15-1939 Nylon First Manufactured 06-16-1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space 05-27-1950 Founding of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) 03-16-1926 First Liquid Fuel Rocket 03-24-1959 Maser (microwave laser) patented 12-23-1867 First self-made millionairess invented hair straightner 05-17-1954 Groundbreaking of the CERN Laboratory 02-05-2012 Loop-the-loop roller coaster ride patented 04-09-1967 First Boeing 737 Flight 03-25-1954 RCA announced the production of color television sets 07-02-1900 First Zeppelin flight 11-07-1940 Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 06-29-2007 First iPhone is sold 03-09-1964 First Ford Mustang 01-09-1839 The Daguerrotype process is announced 04-19-2009 Release of FORTRAN programming language 05-11-1997 Kasparov looses chess tournament to IBM's Deep Blue computer 04-25-1925 Florence Rena Sabin is First Woman Elected to National Academy of Science 06-22-1908 AlChE is Formed 06-25-1903 Marie Curie defends thesis 12-06-1877 First Sound Recording 07-26-1969 Moon rocks collected from Apollo 11 are examined 12-06-1989 Remembering the Montreal Massacre 03-14-1927 First female engineer in ASCE 11-06-1944 Plutonium First Produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility for the Manhattan Project 11-29-1944 John Hopkins Hospital Performs First Open Heart Surgery 05-30-1932 Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Is Component of:	Engineering Pathway - Digital Library for Engineering Education
References:	JFLAP
Referenced By:	Evaluating, Selecting and Using Digital Learning Materials 06-27-1954 First Nuclear Power Plant


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