Jessica MacNeil

On this day in tech history, Garrett Morgan, an inventor who designed life-saving devices like the gas mask and three-position traffic signal, was born.

On this day in tech history, Nancy Currie-Gregg, an engineer, US Army officer, and NASA astronaut, was born in Delaware.

On this day in tech history, the world’s first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah, landed in Savannah, GA, completing its maiden voyage from Yorktown, VA.

On this day in tech history, the first radio broadcast from space was transmitted to Earth when President Eisenhower’s Christmas message went out via short wave frequency.

On this day in tech history, An Wang filed a patent which would become the basis of magnetic core memory.

On this day in tech history, the first electric traffic light system, which used red and green lights with a buzzer and was connected to emergency services, was installed in Cleveland, OH.

On this day in tech history, the Mariner 1 probe heading toward Venus had to be destroyed after veering off course due to equipment failure and an error in coded computer instructions.

On this day in tech history, the first breeder reactor generated enough electricity to power four light bulbs in Arco, Idaho.

On this day in tech history, Doctor Who, the world’s longest running science fiction drama, made its debut on the BBC.

On this day in tech history, the first version of the Perl programming language was posted to a Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall.

On this day in tech history, IBM delivered the first two 7090 mainframe computers, designed for scientific research and technological applications.

On this day in tech history, the first case of an actual bug being the cause of a computer error was recorded in the log book for the Mark II.

On this day in tech history, US Marshals worked with Microsoft and Novell to raid the Assassins’ Guild BBS after claims of piracy.

On this day in tech history, physicists Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the chemical element radium while studying radiation.

At ESC Boston, David Gerber told the story of his father, H. Joseph Gerber, who overcame incredible odds to become one of America’s most influential

On this day in tech history, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 became the first to make a soft landing on the Moon.

After decades of human error causing heartbreak on the soccer field, technology is finally coming to the rescue.One of the world’s biggest leagues,

On this day in tech history, the SR-71 Blackbird military aircraft set the record for “speed over a recognized course” from New York to London with a flight time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.