Jessica MacNeil EDN On this day in tech history, Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral. The launch followed on a similar but unsuccessful attempt by NASA in May 1960 to launch a near ...
George Leopold EE Times The Soviets had bigger boosters that could loft larger payloads, but the American emphasis on weight reduction and its emerging electronics sector proved decisive in reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s. The relatively ...
There's a long history of graphics processors and controllers that have changed the course of the computer graphics market. Major players in the emerging graphics chip market, including IBM, Intel and Texas Instruments, helped pave the way for ...
I began my career in electronic circuit design in 1972; I remember what relatively few integrated circuits were available at that time. So, when I look back at the Apollo program that began in the early '60s and put a man on the Moon in 1969, I ...
The company now known as AT T first established commercial telephone service between North America and Europe on January 7, 1927. Using radio, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co hosted a two-way conversation between New York and London. The ...
The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral. It was the ...
Cabe Atwell Electronic Design The venerable 78xx series continues to march on in an array of electronic devices, but competition in this space has heated up from multiple companies. It’s become a matter of debate as to precisely when the 78xx ...
Seung Lee, The Mercury News Phys.org Before there was an iPhone, iMac or Macintosh, Apple had the Lisa computer. The Lisa computer which stands for Local Integrated Software Architecture but was also named after Steve Jobs' eldest daughter was ...
The first Intel Pentium processor was shipped on March 22, 1993, kicking off what would become a core line for the company and a well-regarded brand to the public. The name Pentium came from the Greek word pente, meaning five, referring to ...
When EDN debuted in 1956, it began to provide technical information to electrical and electronics designers as transistors began to change the industry. Take a look at these electronics developments and ideas from technical/white papers from that ...