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NIST developed a “nanoruler”
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an instrument to measure nanodistance. The "nanoruler" made of silicon makes it possible to estimate the size of micro-objects with 0.3 nanometers accuracy which is comparable to the diameter of a radon atom.

Patent for the first pocket watch
On October 4, 1675 Christiaan Huygens (Dutch mechanic, physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor) patented the pocket watch.

Publication of Einstein’s article "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?"
On November 21, 1905, Albert Einstein published his article “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” in “Annalen der Physik” journal.

Publication of Newton’s «Philosofiae naturalis principia mathematiña»
The fundamental three-volume work of Isaac Newton "Philosofiae naturalis principia mathematiña", which kept the foundations of modern physics and astronomy, was first published on July 5, 1687.

Receipt of the first patent for the microphone
On March 4, 1877, American inventor Emile Berliner patented a voice transmitter containing charcoal powder placed between two metal plates. That was what we call now “microphone”.

Sending of the first message via Morse code
On 24th May 1844, Samuel Morse tested a message transmission from Washington to Baltimore at a distance of about 60 km. It was a biblical text “What Hath God Wrought”.

The birth of BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, was created on October 18, 1922. Headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, it is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees.

USB (Universal Serial Bus) appeared by computer standards quite a long time ago - the version of the first approved variant of the standard appeared on January 15 in 1996.

Total solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse occurred on 11 August 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.0286. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.

Where Motorola begins…
On September 25, 1928, two brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin found Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. The profile of the new enterprise was the design and production of electronic devices.


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