1911: A Curtiss biplane becomes the first airplane to perform a landing on a ship.
The plane, piloted by Eugene Ely, landed on a platform bolted to the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania moored in San Francisco Bay. Ely had been flying for less than a year when approached by the U.S. Navy, which was interested in [...]
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Jan. 18, 1911: Clear the Deck
January 18th, 2011 |
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Jan. 14, 1794: First Successful Cesarean in U.S.
January 14th, 2011 |
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1794: Elizabeth Bennett delivers a daughter by cesarean section, becoming the first woman in the United States to give birth this way and survive. Her husband, Jesse, is the physician who performs the operation.
He was pressed into service after Elizabeth, struggling with a difficult labor and believing she would die, requested her attending physician to [...]
Dec. 8, 1993: Location, Location, Location
December 8th, 2010 |
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1993: The U.S. secretary of defense opens the global positioning system to civilian use. It’s about to change how people see where they are.
The GPS story starts with Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The night after it was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, researchers at MIT were able to track Sputnik’s orbit [...]
War Is Sold Just Like Soda or Toothpaste
November 3rd, 2010 |
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Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com.White House chief of Staff Andrew Card famously said – in explaining why the Bush administration delayed until September 2002 to make its case for war in Iraq:From a marketing point of view, you don’t int…
Sept. 24, 1960: First Nuclear Carrier, USS Enterprise, Launched
September 24th, 2010 |
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1960: USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Virginia. CVN-65, nicknamed Big E, was the first carrier of its kind, powered solely by its eight nuclear reactors.
With nuclear power to propel it, the Enterprise does not need to carry its own fuel oil and has more room for aircraft and [...]
Sept. 9, 1926: Radio Sets Up a National Broadcasting Craze
September 9th, 2010 |
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1926: The National Broadcasting Company is established. The network would dominate radio during that medium’s Golden Age and become the foundation of a massive media empire that to this day just keeps growing.
During the Radio Days, NBC was the most successful in the game, but it was far from the earliest successful player. That distinction [...]
Showdown in the Red Sea: U.S. Sends 11 Warships to Confront Iran
June 20th, 2010 |
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Israel National News is reporting :Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla flotilla approaches Gaza.What should we make of the fact that 11 U.S. warships and an Israeli warship a…
June 16, 1922: Ich Bin ein Berliner Helicopter
June 16th, 2010 |
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By Robert Lemos
1922: Officials of the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics watch Henry Berliner make the first controlled horizontal helicopter flight in the United States. Hovering takes a big step up … and forward.
Henry’s father, Emile Berliner, had made the first U.S. manned helicopter flight in 1908. Papa Berliner was nothing if not inventive. He [...]
May 27, 1931: Wind Tunnel Lets Airplanes ‘Fly’ on Ground
May 27th, 2010 |
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1931: The world’s first full-scale wind tunnel opens at Langley Field near Hampton, Virginia. With a test area 60 feet wide and 30 feet high, aerodynamic testing is performed on everything from World War II fighters and space capsules to submarines and modern jets.
Since the beginning of powered flight, wind tunnels have proven to be [...]
NASA’s Terra satellite spots tropical cyclone Anja in southern Indian Ocean
November 17th, 2009 |
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NASA’s MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite has detected Cyclone Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season, in the southern Indian Ocean.
When Anja formed on November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 330 miles south-southwest of Diego Garcia, it was designated Tropical Cyclone 01S.
By November 15, 01S had strengthened [...]
Second Life Takes Virtual Reality Behind the Firewall at IBM, Navy
November 4th, 2009 |
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Linden Lab Nov. 4 launched Second Life Enterprise, a behind-the-firewall version of its 3D virtual world software. Linden Lab has loaded Second Life on a server for IBM, Northrup Grumman and the U.S. Navy to test in a beta. Second Life Enterprise includes LDAP integration, intranet-grade authentication and central access controls for protecting proprietary information and managing content created in the 3D worlds. Linden Lab is also building a marketplace to let its third-party programmers sell their enterprise applications and virtual goods.
– Second Life is getting a second wind behind the firewall from its parent
Linden Lab. The company Nov. 4 began selling the 3D virtual world software to
enterprises that want to use it to let their employees work together in virtual
meetings or simulations.
Second Life is a 3D virtual world techno…
Oct. 28, 1793: Whitney’s Cotton Gin Patent Not Worth Much
October 28th, 2009 |
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1793: Eli Whitney applies to patent his new invention: a machine that quickly separates cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The cotton gin was the little engine that could — and did — transform the economy of the South and change the course of American history.
Young Whitney wanted to become a lawyer but first needed to [...]
Sept. 30, 1861: A Novelist With a Nose for Disaster
September 30th, 2009 |
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1861: American novelist and short-story writer Morgan Robertson is born. His 1898 novel, Futility, eerily foretells one of the 20th century’s great man-made disasters: the sinking of the Titanic
The similarities between Futility and subsequent actual events are startling, beginning with the names of the ships. Morgan Robertson called his liner Titan, which is just a [...]
San Diego Is a Rising Star for Clean Energy, Technology Jobs
September 18th, 2009 |
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California’s most Southern city is quickly becoming one of the best places to work in technology. With a large venture capital stake, and enormous research centers backed by state government, the most forgotten Pacific city is not just for the Navy and killer whales anymore.
– San Diego, despite what you might have learned from fictitious Anchorman
Ron Burgundy, was not founded by the Germans in 1842. In fact, it has a
storied history, with its neighbor to the south, Mexico, being a border
town, a major U.S. port and a gateway to the United States. Yes, the
U.S. Navy …
Sept. 3, 1925: Shenandoah Crash a Harbinger of Grim Future
September 3rd, 2009 |
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1925: Caught in a squall over southeastern Ohio, the Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah breaks up and crashes into a field, killing 14 of the 43 men aboard. It is the first of three major accidents that eventually ends the Navy’s experiment with rigid airships.
The dirigible, a lighter-than-air craft with a skeletal framework, saw major [...]
Aug. 26, 1346: First Cannon Fired in Battle, Maybe
August 26th, 2009 |
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1346: Genoese mercenaries fighting under Philip VI of France are surprised, unpleasantly, when they are among the first soldiers in history to come under cannon fire.
It has been claimed that this battle, which occurred near Crécy in northern France early in the Hundred Years War, marks the first use of cannon on the battlefield. Like [...]
Navy: Murder charge filed in gay seaman’s death
July 24th, 2009 |
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SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy says a sailor has been charged in military court with murder and other offenses in the shooting death of a gay San Diego seaman.
Petty Officer Jonathan Campos of Lancaster, Calif., was charged Thursday in conne…
Brendan DeMelle: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Acknowledges The Need To Clean Up Vieques
July 23rd, 2009 |
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EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged the need to clean up the island of Vieques in her address at the national convention of the League of…