Labels:text | font | paper | document | black and white OCR: 1917 Born on December 16 in Minehead, Somerset, England. He is educated at Huish's Grammar School, Taunton, Somerset. 1935 Clarke's first appearance in print is a letter he sends to the magazine Amazing Stories concerning the velocity of light. 1936 At age 19 Clarke moves to London, where he works as a civil servant and becomes involved in the newly formed British Interplanetary Society. 1941 Joins the Royal Air Force, where he works as a trainee in radar and then a radar instructor before working with early-warning systems. 1945 An article by Clarke entitled Extra-terrestrial Relays is published in the October issue of the British magazine Wireless World. Clarke puts forward the idea of global communication by using satellites in orbit around the Earth. This becomes a reality with the lau ...
