Today in Tech History: July 27, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: July 27, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Tom Merritt. It's July 27, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. Next time you're time traveling and you want something close to as fast as email, remember the telegraph. The Atlantic cable was completed on this date in 1866 allowing transatlantic telegraph communication at eight words a minute! In 1972 the all-weather F-15 Eagle flew for the first time. The F-15s are still flying and the Air Forces says they'll stay in the air till around 2025. Finally a sad day for hockey fans in 1988. Frank Zamboni passed away. He sped up the sport of hockey quite a bit by replacing the 3-man 90 minute job of cleaning up the ice with a 10-minute one man job using the Zamboni machine. And that cleans up our look back in history. Join us again tomorrow for more.
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