American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome
17th December 2020
American electrical engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the world’s first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
Pale Blue Dot, the most distant photograph ever taken of Earth, was created by the Voyager 1 space probe.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
On the 17th August 1982, the very first commercial compact disc was produced in the German town of Langenhagen.