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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 ...

Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum Hugo Gernsback believed millions yearned for his 3D TV eyeglasses Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term “science fiction” as the editor and publisher of ...

Michael Dunn EDN I've taken a screwdriver to my rare and wonderful Wang LOCI-2 calculator This machine's design seems to be from 1965, though I estimate mine was made in 1967, the same year Young-Me trundled off on a barely-remembered trip to Expo ...