Today is 30th January’10 and here’s what happened today in tech…

1 - In 1487. Bell chimes invented.
2 - In 1862. US Navy’s 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched.
3 – In 1894. Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit.
4 - In 1911. 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba.
5 - In 1928. 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US.
6 - In 1930. The world’s first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
7 – In 1992. Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands.
8 - In 1997. Minuteman III launches.

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