Death Anniversaries, before 1990

every grave in this cemetery, by year of death. this page covers everything before 1990.

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~ 1989 ~

1989 Filmstrip — a spool of 35mm film with thirty-two to sixty-four still pictures on it, pulled through a projector one frame at a time while a record or a cassette p
1989 Microtex 666 — an australian videotex service for microcomputer enthusiasts, reached by dialing telecom australia's viatel network. sean howard owned it and promoted
1989 Red Ryder — wat buchanon wrote it in microsoft basic in 1984 and gave it away on bulletin boards with a manual full of jokes about apple. after he died his friend
1989 Cullinet — charles wang bought it in 1989 for around three hundred million dollars in stock, which was a modest price for the company that had argued software co
1989 IQ 151 — a display terminal designed for the army at the czech technical university in 1982 turned into the computer czech schoolchildren learned to program on
1989 IVC videotape — sunnyvale built a one inch helical videotape line that sold more than thirteen thousand machines across twenty two years, then bet the company on a tw
3 Feb 1989 Filmation — on 3 february 1989 group w closed the studio, one day before a new federal law would have required sixty days of notice for a mass layoff. the timing
12 Apr 1989 Apollo Computer — hewlett-packard paid $476 million in cash for a company that had been the largest engineering workstation vendor on earth thirty months earlier. apoll
17 Apr 1989 ETA Systems — control data could not sell enough cyber 205s to stay in the supercomputer business, so in august 1983 it pushed the whole effort out into a company o
5 May 1989 Infocom — twenty six people were left in the cambridge office on the day the lights went off. infocom had sold around two million games made entirely of sentenc
1 Jun 1989 North Star Computers — the first name over the door was kentucky fried computer, a mail-order operation in a berkeley garage, and it lasted until the chicken company noticed
Aug 1989 The Source — the source was the first thing in america you could call a consumer online service. it predates the web by sixteen years and predates anyone in turkey
Sep 1989 Viditel — viditel went live in august 1980 and gave the netherlands a public dial-up information service eleven years before the web. it painted 24 lines of tex
Nov 1989 NEC PC-8800 Series — about 940,000 machines shipped and almost nobody outside japan has ever seen one. nec announced the pc-8801 on 22 september 1981 and put it on sale th
Dec 1989 ANALOG Computing — two men who met at a star trek convention in 1978 had an atari magazine on the newsstand by january 1981. analog computing ran seventy nine issues on

~ 1988 ~

Jan 1988 MacPaint — macpaint shipped with the first macintosh on january 24 1984. bill atkinson wrote it in 5,804 lines of pascal augmented by 2,738 lines of 68000 assemb
1988 Video 2000 — philips and grundig put video 2000 on sale in 1979 with a cassette you flipped over like an audio tape and an automatic tracking system neither vhs no
1988 Lucasfilm's Habitat — habitat was the first place online that looked like a place. chip morningstar and randy farmer put jointed cartoon bodies on a commodore 64 in 1986 an
1988 PlayNET — two engineers out of ge research put a graphical online service on the commodore 64 in 1984, years before anybody else made a home computer draw its o
1988 PMD 85 — roman kišš built it out of whatever was on the shelf at tesla piešťany, using telephone keys from another tesla plant for the keyboard, and it became
1988 Spectravideo — a stand at winter ces in las vegas in january 1983 held the sv-318, a home computer with a rubber keyboard and a small joystick built into the case. m
1988 Datasoft — june 1980, chatsworth california, and for seven years datasoft did the unglamorous work of the eight-bit era: port the arcade hit, buy the movie licen
1988 Celerity Computing — the ncr/32 was a 32-bit chipset sold by a company best known for cash registers, and a san diego startup bet its whole architecture on it. celerity co
1988 ExtraVision — the decoder killed it. from april 1983 cbs was transmitting a full teletext magazine inside the unused lines of its own television signal, with news a
1988 Cantata 700 — twenty six hours of instrumental cover versions fit on one 3m cartridge, and the machine that played it had no record button. shops bought the box and
Jun 1988 80 Micro — wayne green started it in january 1980 as a spinoff of kilobaud that would cover the radio shack trs-80 and nothing else. by 1982 it was carrying more
20 Jun 1988 American Motors Corporation — george mason merged nash-kelvinator and hudson on 1 may 1954 to build something large enough to survive beside general motors, then died five months l
12 Jul 1988 Coleco Industries — coleco started in 1932 as the connecticut leather company, founded in hartford by maurice greenberg to supply shoe-repair shops. it spent the post-war
8 Aug 1988 Convergent Technologies — on 8 august 1988 unisys took over a company most of its own customers had never heard of, and that was the arrangement working as designed. convergent
27 Sep 1988 MASSCOMP — the smaller company bought the bigger one for 241 million dollars, mostly borrowed, and then took the bigger one's name along with its new jersey head
Oct 1988 Kurzweil Computer Products — on 13 january 1976 a machine read walter cronkite's sign-off out loud at the end of the cbs evening news, and stevie wonder, who caught the story on t
14 Oct 1988 Applied Data Research — seven engineers walked out of sperry rand in 1959 and built the thing nobody had built yet, which was a software company with a product to sell instea
21 Nov 1988 8-Track Cartridge — stereo 8 was an endless loop of tape in a plastic shell, eight tracks across the width read two at a time, which meant one cartridge held four program
Dec 1988 Sharp X1 — two divisions of the same company built two incompatible home computers and sold them against each other for six years. sharp's electronics equipment
1988 Seeburg 1000 — seeburg built a phonograph in 1959 that played both sides of a stack of nine-inch records at 16 2/3 rpm and gave nobody any way to choose a song. shop
1988 Ultimate Play the Game — ashby-de-la-zouch is a small town in leicestershire, and for four years it held the most feared software house in britain. tim and chris stamper built

~ 1987 ~

1987 Betamovie — sony shipped the betamovie in may 1983 and it was the first camcorder anybody could buy, a camera and a recorder welded into one body at 2.5 kg instea
1987 Seattle Computer Products — twenty five thousand dollars in december 1980, then fifty thousand more the following july, and the operating system that would run the next fifteen y
1987 Dragon 32/64 — kenfig, near port talbot, is where the welsh development agency put its money in 1982, into a computer company owned by the toy firm that made corgi c
1987 Super Cassette Vision — seventy percent of the japanese home console market belonged to a toy company in 1982, and the toy company was epoch. the cassette vision had sold aro
1987 Sharp MZ — the model number came off a bath buzzer. sharp had a registration code sitting unused for a bathroom product in 1978 and spent it on a 4-bit trainer k
1987 Centronics — the fat 36-pin plug on the back of a printer was named for a company in hudson, new hampshire that shipped the first affordable dot-matrix printer in
1987 Lisp Machines, Inc. — the mit ai lab had one lisp machine design and two companies that wanted to sell it. richard greenblatt took the half that refused outside investors a
2 Jan 1987 Hebdogiciel — a weekly newspaper of programs you typed in by hand, sold off french newsstands from october 1983. gérard ceccaldi ran it as a permanent argument with
31 Jul 1987 Forethought, Inc. — fourteen million dollars in july 1987, for a program that had been on sale barely three months. it was the first significant company microsoft ever bo
Sep 1987 Living Videotext — dave winer built his first fortune on the outline, a document that folds into itself, and sold the company that made it to symantec in september 1987.
Oct 1987 Vector Graphic — a spare bedroom in westlake village, $6,000 of capital and an 8k memory board for the altair is the entire origin of vector graphic, incorporated on 2
Oct 1987 Family Computing — the word family came off the cover in october 1987, and the whole story is in that one edit. scholastic launched the magazine in september 1983 for ho
Dec 1987 Oric — a french company bought oric out of receivership in 1985 and buried it two years later. the oric-1 had gone on sale in january 1983 at £129, aimed dir

~ 1986 ~

1986 Quadruplex Videotape — quadruplex was the first videotape that actually worked, shown by ampex in a chicago hall in april 1956 to a room of broadcasters who could not believ
1986 Imagic — imagic was started on 1 june 1981 in los gatos by people who had just walked out of atari and mattel, and for about eighteen months it was the best th
Jan 1986 Acornsoft — acornsoft was the software arm of a british computer company that mostly wanted to sell computers. for about five years it shipped the games and the s
1986 Memotech MTX — two hundred thousand computers for soviet schools was the order that would have saved memotech. moscow gave it to yamaha's msx machines instead in 198
1986 Enterprise 128 — on 14 september 1983 a london company showed the press a home computer with two custom chips and a word processor in rom, then said it would ship in s
1986 Thomson MO5 — laurent fabius stood in front of the french press on 25 january 1985 and announced that the state would put more than 120,000 computers into 50,000 sc
1986 System Development Corporation — half of santa monica's air conditioning, or so the joke went, was cooling one building full of vacuum tubes. the building belonged to a company rand h
1986 British Leyland — on 17 january 1968 forty percent of the british car market went into a single company. british motor holdings and the leyland motor corporation merged
1986 HT-1080Z — 2364 machines is the entire production run that reached hungarian classrooms, and that number is the whole story of the ht-1080z. the hiradastechnika
Mar 1986 AT&T Sceptre — at&t built a set-top box for american videotex and put it on sale in october 1983. it painted naplps pages onto a household television and could do no
11 Mar 1986 Morrow Designs — a high school dropout who went back to school at 28 and came out of berkeley building the cheapest serious business computers in america. the micro de
31 Mar 1986 Viewtron — knight-ridder spent six years and more than fifty million dollars building an online newspaper and then switched it off. viewtron went live across fou
Apr 1986 Sinclair QL — a hundred and fifty thousand quantum leaps were sold and one of them mattered more than all the rest. sinclair announced it on 12 january 1984 at £399
9 Jun 1986 RCA — the united states navy did not want a british-owned company holding america's transatlantic wireless stations, so in october 1919 general electric inc
27 Jun 1986 RCA SelectaVision (CED) — rca spent seventeen years building a videodisc you played with a needle, then put it in american shops in march 1981 against a vcr that could already
1 Aug 1986 Apple Lisa — apple announced the lisa in january 1983 at a price nobody outside fortune 500 could pay. it shipped with a gui and a mouse plus protected memory the
16 Sep 1986 Sperry Corporation — burroughs, an adding machine company out of detroit, came for it twice and got it on the second attempt. the sperry board approved $4.8 billion on 27
1986 Confravision — the post office opened confravision in 1971 and it was a video call you had to travel to. six studios in british cities with five seats and five micro

~ 1985 ~

1985 Plover-NET — quasi-moto put plover-net up on an apple in long island in january 1984 and it became the busiest phreak board in the united states inside a year. six
1985 Osborne Computer Corporation — on 13 september 1983 a company that had gone from two employees to three thousand in about a year filed for chapter 11. adam osborne had built the fir
1985 Shugart Associates — al shugart founded this company in 1973 and was gone from it by 1974, after a fight with his own board, which left his name on a factory he no longer
1985 Bally Astrocade — $299 in april 1978 bought a games console with better graphics hardware than anything else in an american living room, and a promise attached to it. t
Jan 1985 NBC Teletext — fifty pages of news and weather went out inside the nbc television signal from 16 may 1983, and almost nobody in america could read them. the nabts st
1985 Acorn Electron — one chip in ten came off the ferranti line working, and that single number is most of what happened to the electron. acorn put it on sale in august 19
1985 Commodore Plus/4 — commodore killed this one itself, and it did not take long. jack tramiel showed the 264 series at the january 1984 consumer electronics show and walke
1985 Galaksija — the full schematic for a working z80 computer went into a special issue of a belgrade science magazine in december 1983, with no patent and no royalty
1985 Hitachi Basic Master — 198,000 yen in september 1978 bought the first personal computer sold in japan, a hitachi machine running hitachi's own version of the motorola 6800 w
1985 Synapse Software — by early 1984 it was the largest outside supplier of software for atari's 8-bit computers, and two thirds of its money was already coming from commodo
1985 Muse Software — baltimore, on the corner of charles and mulberry, where a software company ran a computer store on the ground floor and wrote apple II games upstairs.
1985 Denelcor — six machines went out the door between 1981 and 1985, and that is the entire commercial history of the first parallel computer with independent instru
1985 Charlton Comics — john santangelo went to jail in the early 1930s for printing song lyrics he had no permission to print, met a lawyer named ed levy there, and the two
Feb 1985 Tomy Tutor — tomy promised that its documentation would let an eight-year-old use the machine without an adult in the room, and that promise is what killed it. the
31 Mar 1985 Telidon — telidon was canada's answer to prestel and antiope, and technically it was the better answer. instead of drawing pictures out of mosaic character bloc
Jun 1985 VisiCalc — visicalc was the first killer app. dan bricklin and bob frankston shipped it through software arts on october 17, 1979 for the apple ii, and it became
6 Jul 1985 PC-Talk — a book publisher who had owned a computer for about two weeks wrote a communications program in ibm basic, then decided to distribute it the way publi
Aug 1985 MacBASIC — bill gates wanted the applesoft license renewed and named a price for it: apple had to stop shipping its own basic for the macintosh. apple agreed in
13 Aug 1985 Informatics General — in january 1962 walter bauer talked two colleagues at trw into leaving with him to start a company that sold software, at a point when software was no
Oct 1985 Sega SG-1000 — on 15 july 1983 two japanese companies put a home console on sale, and only one of them is remembered for it. sega's sg-1000 cost 15,000 yen and ran a
Oct 1985 Trilogy Systems — gene amdahl had already built the machine that beat ibm at its own architecture, so when he said he could put a processor on a single 2.5 inch square
17 Oct 1985 Mostek — eighty five percent of the world's memory chips came out of carrollton, texas at the end of the 1970s, from a company founded in 1969 by engineers who
Dec 1985 Adventure International — scott adams played colossal cave on a mainframe, was told a machine with sixteen kilobytes could not possibly run something like it, and then wrote ad
Dec 1985 Creative Computing — half a million people subscribed to a magazine whose main attraction was pages of program listings you had to retype yourself, one line at a time, wit

~ 1984 ~

1984 Qube — qube was a two-way cable tv experiment run by warner-amex out of columbus, ohio from 1 december 1977 to 1984. thirty channels of pay-per-view and comm
1984 GameLine — gameline put a modem inside an atari 2600 cartridge in 1983 and sold games down a phone line for a dollar each. the download sat in the cartridge for
1984 PlayCable — mattel and general instrument put a pdp-11 at the cable company and broadcast intellivision games down the tv wire as an fm signal. an adapter in the
1984 Timex Sinclair — in the first weeks of 1984 a watch company walked out of the computer business it had entered eighteen months earlier, and took the cheapest machine i
1984 Casio PV-1000 — two cartridge numbers were assigned and never used, gpa-108 and gpa-113, and that gap is the clearest surviving record of what happened here. casio pu
1984 Sord M5 — takara charged 10,000 yen more for exactly the same hardware, and the difference was the word printed on the lid. sord put the m5 on sale in november
1984 Ovation Technologies — windows on the world, 107 floors above manhattan, a press conference for a program that no outsider had ever run. ovation was announced in november 19
1984 Starpath — a cassette player, the kind already sitting in every american living room, wired into an atari 2600 through the headphone jack. that was the whole ide
1984 Sirius Software — eighteen million dollars in unpaid royalties is the figure usually quoted, and sirius never saw any of it. in 1983 this was the fifteenth largest micr
1984 Xonox — k-tel sold compilation records off late-night television commercials, and in 1983 it decided the same instinct would work on atari cartridges. the xon
1 Jan 1984 Bell System — on 1 january 1984 the largest private company on earth split into eight pieces, because two years earlier it had signed a consent decree rather than l
1 Jan 1984 Western Electric — the antitrust settlement that broke the bell system also erased the company that had built it. western electric made the telephones and the switching
Feb 1984 Vectrex — thirty one point six million dollars is what milton bradley had lost on it by february 1984, having bought the company that made it barely a year earl
Mar 1984 TI-99/4A — 2.8 million machines went out of a factory in lubbock, texas, and texas instruments still left the home computer business at a loss so large that its
Apr 1984 Fujitsu FM-7 — on 8 november 1982 fujitsu put the cheap version of its own flagship on sale and watched it become the real product. the machine was developed under t
Apr 1984 Atari Program Exchange — dale yocum's idea was that atari should publish the programs its own customers were already writing, print them in a quarterly catalog with the author
Jun 1984 Camputers Lynx — richard greenwood founded camputers in cambridge in february 1981 and built a home computer for people who wanted to compute. the lynx appeared at the
Jun 1984 Dragon Data — june 1984: a receiver walked into a factory at kenfig in south wales that had been building home computers for less than two years. dragon data was se
9 Jul 1984 Imagine Software — imagine lasted twenty two months. two men who had walked out of bug-byte registered it in liverpool in september 1982, and it sold cassettes fast enou
Aug 1984 Cassette Vision — the processor was not in the console. it was in the cartridge, a fresh one in every game you bought, because the team that designed the machine could
Sep 1984 Otrona Advanced Systems — the ibm pc went on sale a few months before otrona opened its doors in boulder, which settled the argument before the company had anything to sell. th
Nov 1984 NABU Network — nabu ran a computer network over cable television in ottawa from october 1983, pushing software down the coaxial line at 6.4 megabits a second while t
Nov 1984 NEC PC-6000 Series — four separate teams inside one company were building four incompatible personal computers by 1983, and nec settled it with an org chart. the pc-6001 c

~ 1983 ~

1983 Compact Video Cassette — the first video format that answered the question of whether you could carry one, and it answered it in 1980, four years ahead of everybody. the casse
1983 Fairchild Channel F — jerry lawson led the team that put a slot on the front of a games machine in november 1976, and every console since has had one. the channel f sold ar
1983 Grundy NewBrain — the bbc wrote the specification for its computer literacy project around the newbrain and then gave the contract to acorn, because newbury laboratorie
1983 IBM MT/ST — every time somebody says word processor they are using a phrase ibm attached in 1964 to a selectric typewriter built into a desk, wired to a magnetic
Oct 1983 Jupiter Ace — richard altwasser and steven vickers had just finished designing the zx spectrum for clive sinclair when they left in 1982 to build their own machine.
Oct 1983 Mattel Aquarius — mattel's own programmers called it a system for the seventies, and they meant it unkindly. the aquarius was designed and built by radofin in hong kong
1983 American Multiple Industries — $49.95 in 1982 money bought you a sealed atari 2600 cartridge with not for sale to minors printed on the box. american multiple industries traded as m

~ 1982 ~

1982 SCELBI — milford, connecticut, 1973. nat wadsworth and bob findley put an intel 8008 across five circuit boards and advertised the result in the back pages of
1982 Bandai Super Vision 8000 — seven games were ever made for it, and all seven came out in 1979, the year it went on sale. bandai had put a real processor inside a japanese home co
5 Feb 1982 Laker Airways — pan am cut its cheapest transatlantic fares by up to two thirds in october 1981, british airways and twa matched within weeks, and laker's cash inflow
12 May 1982 Braniff International Airways — deregulation arrived in october 1978 and harding lawrence answered it by adding routes faster than braniff could pay for them. fuel prices and twenty
26 Oct 1982 DeLorean Motor Company — in february 1982 the dunmurry plant went into receivership, and by the end of may nobody was building cars in it. john delorean was arrested on a coca

~ 1981 ~

1981 Datasaab — sweden built its own computer industry inside an aircraft company. it started in december 1954 when saab took a license to copy besk, the national vac
1981 CYCLADES — louis pouzin built a french research network on the idea that the network itself should promise nothing and the machines at the two ends should sort o

~ 1980 ~

1980 Elcaset — sony, matsushita and teac introduced the elcaset in 1976 as a cassette that would measure like an open-reel machine. the deck pulled the tape out of t
1980 Traf-O-Data — $360 bought the intel 8008 this whole thing was built around, and the prototype that followed came in near $1,500 two years later. two friends out of

~ 1979 ~

1979 Polavision — sixty-eight and a half million dollars was the loss on the leftover hardware when polaroid dumped it as a job lot in 1979. polavision had launched two
1979 Video Cassette Recording — in 1972 philips built a video recorder into a living room cabinet with a tuner and a clock inside it, and charged around six hundred pounds. the casse
1979 Longitudinal Video Recording — basf announced a video recorder with no rotating head in 1974 and did not show one in public until the 1979 funkausstellung, by which point vhs and be
14 May 1979 Processor Technology — popular electronics wanted an intelligent terminal for its july 1976 cover and asked bob marsh and lee felsenstein to design one. they handed back a w
Oct 1979 IMSAI 8080 — a computer store chain killed the computer company that started it. william millard founded ims associates in san leandro in 1973, shipped the imsai 8

~ 1978 ~

1978 Kee Games — joe keenan was nolan bushnell's friend and neighbor, and in september 1973 he fronted a company that pretended to be atari's rival. kee games advertis
1978 Television Electronic Disc — telefunken and teldec showed the press a working videodisc in berlin on 24 june 1970, five years before anyone else had a home video product to sell,

~ 1977 ~

1977 V-Cord — sanyo had a home video cassette on the market before betamax existed and could not make it matter. v-cord put half inch tape in a plastic shell in 197
May 1977 MITS — albuquerque, new mexico, where a company that had been selling model rocket telemetry kits and losing a calculator price war put a metal box with swit
Jul 1977 Nutting Associates — in 1971 a young engineer named nolan bushnell talked a coin-op quiz machine company into manufacturing computer space, and about 1,500 cabinets went o
Dec 1977 Byte Shop — paul terrell gave steve jobs a card at a homebrew computer club meeting in 1976, and a few months later ordered fifty assembled apple i boards at five

~ 1976 ~

1 Apr 1976 Penn Central — february 1968 put the pennsylvania railroad and the new york central under one roof, and the roof came down twenty eight months later. the halves neve

~ 1975 ~

1975 Magnavox Odyssey — ralph baer had the idea in august 1966 while waiting for a bus, and sanders associates, a military electronics contractor, let him build seven prototy
1975 Atlas/Seaboard Comics — martin goodman started marvel in 1939, sold it in 1968 and left in 1972, and at sixty six he opened a comics line on fifth avenue to compete with the

~ 1974 ~

28 Feb 1974 Busicom — sixty thousand dollars is what intel handed back in may 1971 to own a chip it had designed for a japanese calculator company. the chip was the 4004 an

~ 1973 ~

1973 Kenbak-1 — forty-four of these were sold, which makes the owners a smaller group than the staff of most companies that came afterward. john blankenbaker designed
Jul 1973 Cartrivision — cartridge television inc, a subsidiary of avco, put the first home video recorder with rentable hollywood films into sears and montgomery ward in june
20 Jul 1973 Compatible Time-Sharing System — november 1961 is when a modified ibm 709 at mit ran several terminals at once and time-sharing stopped being an argument on paper. fernando corbato's

~ 1971 ~

1971 Electronic Video Recording — evr was cbs putting television onto photographic film and selling you a machine to read it back. the cartridge held 750 feet of 8.75 millimeter film w

~ 1970 ~

1970 Stereo-Pak — earl muntz sold used cars and televisions before he worked out, in 1962, that the thing missing from a car was a record collection. his 4-track cartri

~ 1969 ~

1969 PlayTape — frank stanton showed it to mgm records distributors in new york in 1966 and put it on sale in september 1967 in five colored cartridges, priced from a
1 Jan 1969 The Pullman Company — at its 1929 peak this company could put more than 150,000 people to bed on a moving train every night, which made it the largest bed operator on earth
1969 Sony CV-2000 — august 1965 is when sony put a videotape recorder in a living room for the first time, at 695 dollars for the deck and 40 more for an hour of tape. it

~ 1968 ~

1968 Sabamobil — philips showed the compact cassette in berlin in august 1963 and licensed it to anyone who asked. saba showed the sabamobil at hannover the following

~ 1967 ~

1967 DC-International — two german electronics giants spent 1965 to 1967 selling a cassette that was bigger than the philips one and would not fit in a philips machine. then

~ 1966 ~

16 Mar 1966 Studebaker — south bend, indiana, where five brothers opened a blacksmith shop in february 1852 and built it into the largest maker of horse-drawn wagons in the wo

~ 1965 ~

1965 Tefifon — four hours of music on a single cartridge in the 1950s, when an lp held forty minutes, and it still lost. karl daniel's tefifon pressed audio grooves

~ 1964 ~

1964 RCA Tape Cartridge — four dollars fifty a cartridge in 1960, against three fifty for a twelve hundred foot reel of plain tape. that price gap is the whole obituary. rca sp

~ 1963 ~

1963 de Havilland — geoffrey de havilland incorporated the company on 26 september 1920 and buried two sons who died testing its aircraft. the comet carried fare-paying p

~ 1957 ~

1 Jun 1957 Picture Post — sixty political prisoners outside pusan station, photographed by bert hardy in september 1950, are the reason the best editor in british magazine publ

~ 1955 ~

1955 Wire Recording — valdemar poulsen worked out in 1898 that you could magnetize a steel wire as it ran past an electromagnet and hear the sound back off it later. that i

~ 1953 ~

14 Aug 1953 Fawcett Comics — four hundred thousand dollars and a promise to stop publishing. that was the settlement fawcett signed on 14 august 1953 to end twelve years of litiga

~ 1929 ~

1929 Victor Talking Machine Company — the dog was painted in 1898 and he has been in work ever since. the company that put him on its labels was incorporated in camden, new jersey in 1901

~ 1898 ~

1898 Kelmscott Press — a copy of chaucer, 425 of them on paper at twenty pounds each and thirteen on vellum at a hundred and twenty guineas, finished on 8 may 1896 after twe

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