1888 – Mr. George Gouraud introduced the Edison phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord,” one of the first recordings of music ever made.
https://www.gsarchive.net/sullivan/html/historic.html
1894 – The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code was demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford. A message was transmitted about 50 meters from the old Clarendon Laboratory to the lecture theater of the University Museum.
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0262313421
1940 – John Atanasoff finished a paper describing the Atanasoff Berry Computer, or ABC, the computer he designed with Clifford Berry to solve simultaneous linear equations.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/august/14/
1989 – Sega launched the Genesis console in the US. It had been released in Japan the previous October as the ‘Mega Drive.’
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-true-16-bit-experience-segas-genesis-turns-25
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