Today in Tech History – January 7, 2018

1714 – Henry Mill patented a machine for transcribing letters “one after another, as in writing.” Sadly, he died before he perfected the first typewriter.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_history.html

1839 – Louis Daguerre made the first announcement of his photographic system at the Académie des Sciences in Paris, though details were not presented until August of that year.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm

1954 – In New York at IBM headquarters, IBM and Georgetown University showed off their joint project on machine translation. More than 60 sentences were translated from Russian to English using eight grammar rules.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_translator.html

2003 – Apple released the public beta of its new browser, called Safari.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/01/07Apple-Unveils-Safari.html

2016 – the 49th Mersenne prime was discovered by Dr. Curtis Cooper at the University of Central Missouri as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. It was written as 2^74,207,281-1.
http://www.mersenne.org/primes/?press=M74207281

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