Today in Tech History: August 3 Video
Today in Tech History: August 3 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's August 3, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. On this date in 1492, Columbus set sail to discover a trade route to Asia. And boy, did he need GPS. Today in 1811, Elisha Otis was born. He invented a safety brake that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. His invention amazed onlookers, increased public confidence in elevators, and led to the development of skyscrapers. Today is also the birth date, in 1860, of William Kennedy Dickson. He was an inventor who worked for Thomas Edison. He devised the Kinetoscope, which was one of the first motion picture exhibition devices. In fact, it set the standard for all cinematic projection until true video came along. And finally, on this date in 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus became the first watercraft to reach the geographic North Pole, navigating beneath the Arctic ice sheet. And that's it for today's collection of tech tidbits; we'll be back to give you chills tomorrow.
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