Seagate Technology was originaly the named “Shugart Technology” by Alan Shugart. The first product was the ST-506, the first hard disk to fit the 5.25″ form factor of the Shugart “mini-floppy” drive. The hard disk was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412. Seagate’s history is filled with dramatic boom …
The original idea behind the very short “smart car” is that the vehicle is easy to park. It is short enough to allow it to be parked “nose-in” where a conventionally sized car would have to parallel park. Its length of 2.5m (98.4 in) equals the width of a truck or a regular parking slot, …
Time was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor of the Yale Daily News. Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw Time as something important …
Soichiro Honda was a mechanic who, after working at Art Shokai, developed his own design for piston rings in 1938. He attempted to sell them to Toyota who rejected his first design. After two years of study and further refinement, Honda earned a contract from Toyota. He constructed a new facility to supply Toyota, but …
In 1869, Ulysses S. Grant was sworn into the Presidency and the last stake was driven into the transcontinental railroad. That same year, two men a fruit merchant named Joseph Campbell and an icebox manufacturer named Abraham Anderson shook hands in Camden, New Jersey, to form a business that would one day become …
These are the first letters of the last names of the three company founders, Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn. In 1969, just months after the world had marvelled at Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, the three partners took another small step that would have a profound impact on the way the …