In August 1974 China approved a project meant to let computers typeset Chinese print. Five years later the first newspaper page proof came off the system, and the technology was called "the second invention of Chinese printing".
For seventeen years it was the tallest structure in the world. The steel mast near Gąbin broadcast on a wave 1332 metres long, and when it fell the record passed back to the mast in North Dakota.
NIST announced its standardisation process in 2016. It received 23 signature systems and 59 encryption methods, and ended up with Kyber, Dilithium, FALCON and SPHINCS+. One candidate collapsed spectacularly in 2022.
Westinghouse generators built on Tesla's patents started up on 25 August 1895. The tailrace tunnel cost the lives of 28 workers, and the war over current ended in a merger that produced General Electric.
The first public railway to run steam locomotives opened in County Durham. Twelve years later the first telegraph in regular service was strung along the tracks, and one of its messages led to the arrest of John Tawell.
Marian Rejewski reconstructed the military Enigma without ever seeing one. He worked on it with Zygalski and Różycki for nearly seven years, and five weeks before the war broke out the Poles handed their results to the French and the British.
The constitution took effect on 3 May 1947 and runs to 103 articles in 11 chapters. The Tokaido Shinkansen opened on 1 October 1964, and in 2024 the network recorded 385.9 million passenger journeys.
The word "cartography" only entered English in the nineteenth century, borrowed from French. Maps themselves are far older, and measuring France kept the Academy of Sciences busy for decades.
ENIAC cost 487,000 dollars, weighed more than 30 tons and had about five million hand-soldered connections. Three years later, a machine in Manchester ran the first program stored in memory.
The union started out in telegraphy, added radio in 1906, took its current name in 1932 and joined the UN in 1947. Its Radio Regulations now carve up the spectrum from 9 kHz to 300 GHz.