The base of the jovial groove as the little group walked was a lilting, repeating riff on the kora, the 21-string harp-lute that a musician played with its base propped against his torso, plucking with his thumbs. â
The Vanguard team was still working on a test vehicle (TV-2) designed to test the first stage of the rocket when they learned of the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, by the USSR on October 4, 1957. On December 2, the Department of Defense announced the imminent launch of TV-3.
ENIAC was built between 1943 and 1945. Its first real prâ¦ogram, simulation of Edward Teller's Classical Super fusion bomb, was run in December 1945 and January 1946, used a million punched cards. The simulation showed this fusion bomb design to be not workable.