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Daily threads of significant technological events that happened on this day. “Study the past if you would define the future.” -Confucius

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Today the bridge sits at the center of one of the most watched New Year's Eve celebrations on earth. It is 94 years old, still the tallest steel arch bridge on the planet, and was paid off by the time most of its builders were already dead. Not a bad run for a coathanger.
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The bridge cost so much that tolls were collected for 56 years to service the debt, finally paid off in 1988, Australia's Bicentennial year. On hot days the arch expands and the top rises about 18 cm. Engineers knew this would happen and designed for it.
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On this day in 1932, a man on horseback rode up to the ribbon cutting at Sydney Harbour Bridge's opening ceremony and slashed it with a sword before the Premier could cut it. A thread 🧵
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61 years ago Today, Voskhod 2 was launched and Alexey Leonov performed the first spacewalk ever
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Leonov survived to command Soyuz 19 in 1975 and shook hands with American Tom Stafford in orbit during Apollo-Soyuz. The man who won the first lap of the Space Race helped close it. He died in 2019, aged 85. The first human to walk in space was also the first to make art there.
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Soviet TV quietly cut the live broadcast mid-mission. The real story stayed hidden for decades. Leonov publicly said working in weightlessness was easy, the opposite of the truth. The near-disasters were so serious the Soviets wouldn't attempt another EVA for almost four years.
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On this day in 1965, a Soviet cosmonaut climbed out of a spacecraft 500 kilometers above Earth and floated in open space for the first time in human history. It nearly killed him in three different ways. A thread 🧵
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On this day in 1988, Apple sued Microsoft for stealing the look and feel of the Mac. It was the biggest copyright fight in tech history and Apple lost almost everything. A thread 🧵
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@TodayInTechHist I have always wondered about that photo which part of it flies, which part belongs to the launching pad.
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On this day 100 years ago, a physics professor launched a spindly rocket from a snow-covered farm in Massachusetts. It flew for 2 seconds and reached 41 feet. Nobody covered it. It changed everything. A thread 🧵
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100 years ago today, Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first successful liquid-propellant rocket. The rocket went up to an altitude of 41 feet in 2.5 seconds and landed 184 feet away.
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A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space! Today marks 100 years since the first successful test of a liquid-fueled rocket. Robert H. Goddard's achievement would have appeared unimpressive by most measures: His rocket flew just 41 feet in the air, landing in a nearby cabbage patch. Liquid-propelled rocketry has been the backbone of spaceflight ever since. 📷 by Esther Goddard on March 16, 1926 (Clark University Archive)
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In 1969, the day after Apollo 11 launched, the New York Times finally corrected its 1920 editorial. Rockets do work in a vacuum. Goddard had been dead 24 years. NASA named a major space center after him. One of the longest corrections in newspaper history.
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Goddard never got proper recognition in his lifetime. The US military largely ignored him. German engineers studied rocketry aggressively and built the V-2 missile. He died in 1945 at 62, still obscure. He held 214 patents and had launched 34 rockets.
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