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When Edward Berner could not serve his customer flavoured soda water on the Sabbath, he served him up a bowl of ice-cream topped with chocolate ice-cream soda flavouring - the first ice-cream sundae!
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Communication
On 22nd March, 1960, Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes patented their work on masers... Read more »
On 19th August, 1964, The Syncom 3 communication satellite was launched, making it the first geostationary communication satellite... Read more »
On 19th April, 1965, WINS-AM radio station became one of the first to take on an all-news format... Read more »
On 16th February, 1968, The US first began using 911 as an emergency telephone number... Read more »
On 23rd January, 1970, Australia’s OSCAR 5 radio satellite was launched... Read more »
On 3rd April, 1973, The world’s first portable phone call was made... Read more »
On 1st March, 1978, PBS pioneered satellite TV with their Public Television Satellite Service... Read more »
On 1st February, 1983, The first digital voice mail system was patented... Read more »
On 12th April, 1994, Laurence Canter unleashed the first internet spamming program... Read more »
On 7th February, 1995, Gunter and Williams patented a Personalized Interactive Storybook... Read more »
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