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* * HISTORY THIS WEEK (SARC News 07-03-2010)
1843 US Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the
practicability of establishing a
system of
electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
1876 Bell - First phone message "Mr Watson come here, I want
you."
1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great
Barrington MA
1896 1st auto in Detroit MI, Charles B King rides his
"Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1910 Wireless Institute of Australia founded, world's first AR
society.
1917 Members of 1st Anzac Wireless Signal Squadron occupy
Baghdad.
de John Alcorn, VK2JWA, for SARC. |
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