Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 7

By Dane Carlson on January 7, 2013 in History

1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

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