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Feedback* QOTW: + If time travel was possible and you could send a modern smartphone back to a scientist from the past, who would you choose and how do you think it would change history?

On This Day In History for February 21, 2024This is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 314 days remaining in 2024.

It was on this date in 1804, that The first self-propelling steam locomotive made its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales
That same date in 1842, John Greenough was granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine
It was on this date in 1878, that The first telephone directory was issued in New Haven, Connecticut
That same date in 1925, The New Yorker published its first issue
In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrated the first “instant camera”, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America on this date in 1947
On February 21, 1948, NASCAR was incorporated
It was also this date in 1972 that The Soviet uncrewed spaceship Luna 20 landed on the Moon

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German astronomer, composer, and theorist, Sethus Calvisius, born on this date in 1556.
Francis Ronalds, the British scientist, inventor and engineer who was knighted for developing the first working electric telegraph was born 236 years ago today.
Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate, Henrik Dam was born 129 years ago today.
Born February 21, 1921, American aeronautical engineer Richard T. Whitcomb.
American computer scientist and engineer, Thelma Estrin was born 100 years ago today.
Also born on that same date in 1943, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records, David Geffen.
United States Senator, American captain, pilot, and astronaut, Mark Kelly is 60 today.

Listener Birthdays

23 – Zhadum
23 – Keith Hughes(a.k.a. EdGizmo)
25 – Norbert
25 – Sandi Sheppard (Mark’s lovely wife)
28 – Wayne “Your Ad Here” Pittenger – Bethlehem PA
29 – Paul Dove a.k.a Eilmer From Malmesbury UK

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 21, 2024

If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

News* Water molecules found on asteroids thought to be ‘completely dry’ | CNN * Private Odysseus moon lander beams home 1st photos from space | Space

Hacks & Strange Stories* ‘Rat Dck’ Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal * You’ve tried plant-based meat, but here come meat-based plants * AI falsely fines Dutch man 380 euro for using phone while driving – The Jerusalem Post

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Pass me the remote* Kreg: + The Wedding Crashers + Better Call Saul * Chuck: + Building the Eiffel Tower | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS (YouTube) + The Only Reason the Voyager Probes are Still Working Today (YouTube) + The Greatest Night in Pop (Netflix)

Question of the week* If humans discovered a way to teleport anywhere on Earth instantaneously, how would this change daily life and global society?

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