8 of September 1930, the 3M company created the tape. Invented his young employee Richard drew, who a few years ago just took a job in Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. At that time, the company was engaged in the manufacture of sandpaper and conducted research in various areas, including worked with impervious materials and experimented with cellophane. Richard was a lab technician and followed the testing abrasive cloth in shops and garages. There he saw that when painting multiple colors of the lines was sloppy. Drew has solved this problem and a year later brought the tape with a width of 5 centimeters. During operation, the tape is wrinkled, as Richard because of the economy caused the sticky part only on the edges.
Box with Scotch
According to legend, when the master told drew that the tape is to send your Scotch bosses (Scotch bosses) so they made it more sticky. At that time it was believed that the Scots are very stingy, that’s one of the most desired products of the XX century and got its name. 5 years Richard drew perfected the tape and in 1930 the first roll was sent to the client, then it was intended for sealing wrappers for food. Later, people invented many ways to use tape. Today, 3M produces more than 900 items of tape. The tape is used in various industries: automotive, electrical, construction and, of course, as a packing material in the home.
On 8 September 1966 on the screens out the pilot episode of the series Star Trek. It is from this series and began one of the most popular sci-Fi franchise about humanity’s future in space. Thought it was an American screenwriter gene Roddenberry. Today, there are six television series Star trek, 12 films, numerous books, stories and computer games. Star Trek made a great contribution in the popular culture of America and even spawned its own subculture. The series, which was released on this day was not their own names, unlike the subsequent films. So, he went down in history as the “Star trek: the Original series” or “Classic way”. The first Star Trek consisted of three seasons, during which showed 79 episodes. The action takes place in the second half of the XXIII century and tells the story of the research mission of the starship enterprise under captain Kirk.
The crew of the enterprise
September 8, 1973 Micro Computer Machines announced the development of the world’s first personal computers. Unfortunately, the novelty, released only a year after this date, almost did not spread and remained little known. The computer of the future was created by the Mersey Cottom, canadian scientist of Ukrainian descent, first on paper. As the basis of Cutt takes the body of the electronic calculator, and decides to add a full keyboard and a tape recorder. But what to do with the filling? Here the inventor is lucky, he met with Robert Noyce from Intel, following the development of the first 8-bit processor, and then offers the Noyce financial support and in return receives access to the Intel 8008. In 1972, with the assistants of Cut make the prototype and the miniature computer was shown to the public in 1973. The machine weighed 9 kg, and built-in monitor could display only one line of text. The ROM was the interpreter of the Premier League, magnetic cassettes served as a virtual memory of 100 KB. The simplest model with 2 KB of RAM cost $ 4950, and the option of 8 KB and two magazines asked for 9800 dollars.
Miniature computers MCM/70