Today in Tech History: August 2 Video
Today in Tech History: August 2 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's August 2, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. On this date in 1835, Elisha Gray was born. Gray owned a telegraph manufacturing company, and was interested in this whole idea of transmitting sounds with electricity. Like ... a tele... phone. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell was interested in the idea as well. Gray and Bell filed telephone patents on the same day ... leading to a complicated controversy that lasted for years and ended with Bell getting credit as the inventor. Ok, but how weird is this? On this date in 1922, Alexander Graham Bell, known for his invention of the telephone? DIED. CRAZY. On this date in 1870, the world's first underground tube railway, Tower Subway, opened in London. And today in 1932, Carl D. Anderson discovered the positron -- the antiparticle or antimatter of the electron. For his discovery, Anderson won the Nobel Prize in Physics. That's all we've got for today; more smart dudes and patent feuds coming up tomorrow.
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