Technology

ENIAC was the first programmable computer. Elizabeth Snyder and Betty Jean Jennings developed the programs for the February 1, 1946 demonstration but no women were invited to the University of Pennsylvania's celebratory dinner.


ENIAC had NO memory until July 1953 when a 100-word expansion core memory, debveloped by Boroughs, was added. ENIAC weighed 27 tons, contained 18,000 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors.


We had dial telephones. "Party Lines" were common with phone numbers shared by two families.


The telephone in our grocery store looked like this one.


I had a Brownie Hawkeye camera with a flash attachment using Kodak 127 film


I had a Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera


I had a Nikon digital SLR camera


I had a Panasonic movie camera


My mother's typewriter was like this one


Early typewriter with red and black type


Electric typewriter


The IBM Selectric electric typewriter revolutionized typing.


The IBM Selectric used a "ball" instead of keys.


Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer, led the development of the first cellphone with a prototype in 1973.


The modern cellphone is a computer, telephone, camera, movie camera, and typewriter

Automobiles

My grandfather's dealerships sold Packard, Nash and Hudson. The 1924 Packard Straight Eight led the industry in luxury cars with its powerful, eight cylinders, quiet-riding chassis and four-wheel brakes


Today there are self-driving cars


Interior and technology of a self-driving cars


My first car, this 1957 Chevy Bel Aire:


I drove a blue 1958 Chevy Bel Aire during my dating years.


I drove a green 1959 Chevy Impala during my first years of marriage.


I drove a 1967 white Oldsmobile with red interior when the '59 Chevy rusted out.


I bought a new green 1972 Impala for my wife.


I bought a new silver 1975 Chevy Monza for me


In 1980 I drove a Chrysler LeBaron Medallion.


My Crysler was a regal automobile


In the early 90's I owned 3 Mitsubishi Gallants


In the early 2000's I owned 2 Mitsubishi Diamantes


The 2001 Mitsubishi Diamante interior


In 2005, I bought an Emerald Green 2003 Cadillac Seville SLS


In 2009 I bought a red Cadillac DTS


The Cadillac DTS interior with GPS nav system


In 2015 I bought a 2016 Cadillac CT6


The CT6 interior with 3-D Navigation Screen"


The CT6 rear view mirror is a camera


My fortune at a Chinese restaurant the day I bought the CT6


In December 2019 I upgraded to a 2018 CT6 Platinum Edition


What luxury costs!


All seats are 20-way adjustable, 4 zone climate control, 34 speakers, sun roofs front and rear


The CT6 uses cameras to self-drive (Video Demo) and to self-park (Video Demo)


Cadillac's dashcams record activity front and back.


Cadillac's Night Vision highlights people and animals. (Video Demo).


Speed and GPS are displayed on the windshield


Infotainment screens: 15 massage options or watch a movie

Man in Space

Neil Armstrong on the Moon, July 20, 1969
"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"


On Feb. 9, 1971, the Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard their Command Module Kitty Hawk in the south Pacific Ocean.


Salyut Russian Space Station 1971. The Original Space Station


The 21st century Space Station


In April 1973 we began rocketing into space with people and cargo in a Space Shuttle.


A Space Shuttle returns to Earth from outer space. The Shuttle program ended July 21, 2011.


Voyager I was launched 9/5/77 to explore our solar system. Today it is still traveling, 15 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space.