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Today in Tech History: August 5 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's August 5, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. On this date in 1914, the first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio. It had only two colors: red and green, and it used a buzzer to warn cars about the color changes. And lastly, today marks the death, in 1991, of Soichiro Honda, the founder of the Honda Motor Company. People magazine dubbed him the "Japanese Henry Ford." Honda is now, of course, the 5th largest automobile manufacturer in the world. And that's all the time we've got for this tech history joyride. Take another drive with us back here tomorrow.
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