On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of what would ultimately become a global telephone network.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Oct. 6, 1956, Albert Sabin announced his oral vaccine against polio was ready for testing. Polio had been raging in the United States, with 21,000 cases of paralysis in 1952.
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.