In 1955, 
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the forerunner of Sony, launched its first line of transistor radios. The radio used transistor technology developed by Bell Laboratories. The transistor radio was a game changer for what would become Sony. Learn more at http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=918&catid=24&subcatid=157#05. In 2000, 
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In 1935, 
American physicist William Coolidge was granted a patent for the cathode ray tube. The development of electronic television systems was based on the development of the cathode ray tube (CRT), more commonly known as the picture tube. Learn more about CRTs at http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/CathodeRayTube.htm

In 1802, Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel was born. Niels Abel proved the impossibility of solving algebraically the general equation of the fifth degree. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Henrik_Abel

In 1922, all thirteen million telephones in the United States and Canada went silent for one minute. This was to honor Alexander Graham Bell as his funeral began. The inventor of the telephone, telegraph and nearly thirty other inventions passed away on August 2, 1922.

In 1977, Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. The TRS-80 was the first mass-produced desktop computer. It was based on the Z-80 8-bit microprocessor and featured 4KB RAM. a 12-inch video display, and a cassette-based data recorder. The computer uses the TRSDOS and

In 1932, the positron was discovered by Carl D. Anderson. The positron has the same mass as an electron but the opposite charge. This differs from a proton that has an opposite charge from an electron, the same as a positron, but not the same