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Episode 735: Going on a Voyage

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  • 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, 2024

      This 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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                        • If humans discovered a way to teleport anywhere on Earth instantaneously, how would this change daily life and global society?
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