On this day in history โ October 26, 1958: Pan American World Airways began Boeing 707 service from New York to Paris, opening the first U.S. airline jet service. Credit: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. #STEMWire (https://t.co/srNfOW1cCr) ๐ฐ๏ธ
On this day in history โ October 25, 1906: Inventor Lee de Forest filed a patent application for a vacuum-tube device to amplify weak electrical currents. Credit: U.S. Patent 841,387. #STEMWire (https://t.co/srNfOW1cCr) ๐ฐ๏ธ
On this day in history โ October 24, 1836: Inventor Alonzo D. Phillips patented improvements to friction-match manufacture and packaging designed to reduce accidental ignition. Credit: U.S. Patent 68. #STEMWire (https://t.co/srNfOW1cCr) ๐ฐ๏ธ
On this day in history โ October 23, 2001: Apple introduced the iPod, a portable digital music player with a 5GB hard drive and FireWire transfer. Credit: Apple. #STEMWire (https://t.co/srNfOW1cCr) ๐ฐ๏ธ
On this day in history โ October 22, 1938: Chester Carlson and Otto Kornei made the first xerographic copy in Astoria, New York, demonstrating dry electrostatic copying. Credit: Xerox. #STEMWire (https://t.co/srNfOW1cCr) ๐ฐ๏ธ