The Kit-Cat Clock is a novelty style kitchen wall clock that first appeared during
the 1930s. The first clock was made in 1932 by the Allied Clock Company in
Portland, Oregon which moved to Seattle, Washington and then to southern
California in 1962. The name was changed to California Clock Company. The manufacturer estimates that the clock has been sold at an average rate of one
every three minutes for the last 50 years.
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THE ICONIC KIT-CAT CLOCK
WHAT NO OTHER SYSTEM CAN DO!
INTERNET PIONEER HAS DIED AT 88
Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013)
Engelbart was the director of Stanford Research Institute’s Augmentation
Research Center in San Francisco. He is best known for his work on the
challenges of human/computer interaction, resulting in the invention of
the computer mouse in 1968.
Douglas Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from
Franklin High School in 1942. He then attended and graduated from
Oregon State College at Corvallis. Engelbart died late Tuesday in
San Francisco. The cause of his death wasn’t announced.
COMPUTER DEDICATED ON THIS DAY IN 1951
Close up of the computer operator’s console
"Univac I" was a computer designed for the U.S. Census Bureau and billed as the
world’s first commercial computer. The company existed until 1981.
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