//podcastplus.net/feed/this-week-in-tech-history~704e01d2 The most important moments in tech history recapped just for you. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:29:46 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TWITH-Thumbnail-01-08-2021-1024x576.jpg A new way to listen to music is unveiled, a tech mogul steps down and a device that changed the way we communicate was introduced… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1949 – The Radio Corporation of America, sometimes known as RCA, announced a new 7-inch, 45-rpm phonograph record. Soon, […] Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:41:04 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TWITH-Thumbnail-01-08-2021-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-01-01-2021-1024x576.jpg The first picture-in-picture TV is unveiled, the first electric watch is released, and a tech giant is incorporated… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1940 – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first demonstration of FM radio. The new medium, free of interference, static, and noise in thunderstorms, […] Thu, 31 Dec 2020 17:32:31 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-01-01-2021-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-25-2020-1024x576.jpg Edison shows off his new incandescent lighting, the “Man of the Year” is not a man at all, and the Internet as we know it, is created… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1879 – Thomas Edison delighted an audience in Menlo Park, New Jersey, when he gave his first […] Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:43:23 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-25-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-18-2020-1024x576.jpg A new television system was patented, the transistor was invented and nuclear power made its debut … It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1938 – Vladimir Zworykin of Wilkinsburg, PA patented the iconoscope television system. This was the first fully electronic system to replace the older mechanical systems that used […] Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:37:24 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-18-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-11-2020-1024x576.jpg The first powered airplane flight takes off, the last person walks on the moon and a flawed processor halts shipments of PCs… It all happened This Week in Tech History. 1903 – The first successful powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. First Orville, then Wilbur Wright kept their invention flying … […] Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:46:05 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-11-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-04-2020-1024x576.jpg The first theater to use electric lights opens, the first automatic parking garage opens, and the mother of all demos is given … It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1882 – The Bijou Theatre opened in Boston, MA and became the first theatre to be lighted by electricity, which Thomas […] Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:03:45 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TWITH-Thumbnail-12-04-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-19-2020-1024x576.jpg A new way to listen to music is unveiled, a popular PC operating system is released and the first privately funded spaceplane heads to space… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1948 – Columbia Records announced that it was offering a new Vinylite long-playing record that could hold 23 minutes […] Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:40:12 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-19-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-12-2020-1024x576.jpg Ben Franklin makes a shocking revelation, the first American woman in space blasts off and a communications giant is born.… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1752 – Founding father, Benjamin Franklin finally got the opportunity he had been waiting for, to prove a connection between lightning and electricity. As […] Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:22:38 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-12-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-05-2020-1024x576.jpg A big step is taken towards automated computation, Compaq Computer makes a big purchase and NASA begins its Mars Exploration Rover Mission … It all happened This Week in Tech History. This week in 1887 – US Inventor Herman Hollerith submitted his patent application for the ‘Art of Compiling Statistics’, which was his punched card […] Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:01:06 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TWITH-Thumbnail-06-05-2020-1024x576.jpg https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TWITH-Thumbnail-05-29-2020-1024x576.jpg Thomas Edison flops, Henry Ford completes his first car, and Apple releases their first consumer product… It all happened This Week in Tech History. This Week in 1848 – William Young of Baltimore, MD patented a hand-cranked paddle freezer and invented the technique that survives today. It cut the time from hours to minutes and […] Thu, 28 May 2020 20:22:40 +0000 https://intotomorrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/TWITH-Thumbnail-05-29-2020-1024x576.jpg