 |
 Almon
Strowger was an undertaker who had
become frustrated over human telephone operators
misdirecting calls from his customers. Determined
to get rid of the need for human operators, he
invented the automatic telephone exchange in
1891, and the dial telephone in 1896. |
 Jack St.
Clair Kilby was working at Texas
Instruments when he developed the first
integrated circuit, in 1958. He eventually held
over 60 patents, including for the pocket-sized
calculator and a thermal printer
used in portable data terminals. |
 Accident at
Three Mile Island On March 28, 1979, and for several days
thereafter -- as a result of technical
malfunctions and human error -- Three Mile
Island's Unit 2 Nuclear Generating Station was
the scene of the nation's worst commercial
nuclear accident. Radiation was released, a part
of the nuclear core was damaged, and thousands of
residents evacuated the area. Events here would
cause basic changes throughout the world's
nuclear power industry. |
 The Lava
LiteŽ In 1963, English businessman and
inventor Edward Craven Walker began manufacturing
a liquid motion lamp that he called the Astro
Light. |
 Samuel
Finley Breese Morse struggled for
many years to gain recognition as a painter, but
became better known for the telegraph, which he
successfully demonstrated on May 24, 1844. |
 The
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission is responsible
for reactor safety oversight and
reactor license renewal of existing plants,
materials safety oversight and materials
licensing for a variety of purposes, and waste
management of both high-level and low-level waste. |
