Today is 16th November 09 and here’s what happened today in tech…

1 – In 1897. 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated.
2 – In 1947. William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.  A point-contact transistor was the first type of solid-state electronic transistor ever constructed. It was made by researchers John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain at Bell Laboratories in December 1947. They worked with physicist William Bradford Shockley, who did not want to share credit for the invention. The three had been working together on theories of electric field effects in solid state materials.
3 – In 1964. US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean.
4 – In 1965. Gemini 6 returns to Earth.
5 – In 1965. Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit.
6 - In 1970. 1st successful landing on Venus (USSR).
7 – In 2007. Ron Paul raises a record amount of money online in a single day “money bomb”: over six million dollars in 24 hours.