Today in Technology History

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Administrative Note

Dear Readers -

Today's tech history message about the Holland Tunnel is the 450th we've published so far, and we just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for reading these messages either by e-mail or on the Web.

In the past few months, we told you the stories of everyday items, like the Thermos and the pager. We wrote about clothes, like denim and stockings. We also wrote about soap and Sputnik and sewing machines. We discussed famous people (like Bill Gates of Microsoft) and obscure people (like Karl Jansky, the father of radio astronomy). We've written about everything from the thermostat to the thermonuclear bomb.

We always enjoy hearing suggestions and comments from our readers. Corrections, too. For instance, one of our readers (Alastair Sweeny of Ottawa, Ontario) wrote to tell us that we were wrong to say that Alexander Graham Bell made the first long-distance phone call on October 9, 1876. Before that date, there had been several long-distance phone calls -- but they were all one-way phone calls. The importance of the phone call we wrote about was that it was the first long-distance phone conversation. We've fixed the Web version of that day's message to reflect the correction.

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Once again, thanks for reading our tech history messages.

Yours,
The Center Staff

 

 

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