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In 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller. In 1962, AT&T's Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of ...

A half-century ago, the world became much smaller. Until then, it was hard to get telephone and television signals from other continents. But then came the launch of Telstar on July 10, 1962 — and ...

Today, July 12, marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast from the Telstar satellite, the first commercial satellite in orbit. These broadcasts heralded a sea change in the way we communicated ...

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(SPACE.com) Fifty years ago today, on July 12, 1962, the first ever live television signal was beamed across the Atlantic Ocean, ushering in a new era of communications that paved the way for the ...

The first live trans-Atlantic television satellite broadcast took place on July 23, 1962, and was made via AT&T’s Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar had been launched 13 days prior to the broadcast by a ...

Fifty years ago today, the Space Age gave birth to the age of satellite communication as we know it — though it wasn't clear at the time just how world-changing that outer-space angle would turn out ...

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Image of the Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed the ...

Fifty years ago today, the Space Age gave birth to the age of satellite communication as we know it today — though it wasn't clear at the time just how world-changing that outer-space angle would turn ...