Today in Tech History: June 29, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: June 29, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's June 29, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. On this date in 1888, the first known recording of classical music was made on wax cylinder. The song was Handel's Israel in Egypt. Today in 1937, Joseph-Armand Bombardier was told that the Canadian government had granted his patent request for the snowmobile (which he called une autoneige). Bombardier, who went on to found the company by the same name, was a mechanic who dreamed of building a machine that could "float on snow." And finally, today is the birth date of Alan Blumlein, born in 1903. He was an English electronics engineer and pioneer of stereo sound. And he was quite precocious. At the age of 7, he repaired hisdoorbell, and then presented his mother with an invoice for the job signed, "Alan Blumlein, Electrical Engineer." Cute. I bet he was a handful. And that's it for today, everyone. See you back here tomorrow with more tech history tidbits.
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