Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Satellite & Transistor

The 1st communications satellite = July 10, 1962
TELSTAR = 3 Earth stations: U.K., France, Maine
The 1st image broadcast was the American flag.

The 1st televisions hit the stores in '54.
By the late 60's you got red blood on yer screen.

It is 238,000 miles to the moon.
Roundabout the average center-to-center distance.
About 30 times the diameter of the Earth.

The TRANSISTOR was invented in 1947!
[they won the Nobel Prize for it]
Bell Labs y'all!! [lasers, cellphones, touchtones ... ]

ACCUTRON watches use oscillating tuning forks.
They are electronicall driven wristwatches and they are FRESH.

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