Today in Tech History: June 6, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: June 6, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's June 6, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. Today's a pretty big day, actually. Huge, even. Chew on this: in 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. I know. I don't understand how that idea didn't make it. Today is also the birth date of Karl Ferdinand Braun, born in 1850. He was a German inventor and physicist who built the first cathode- ray tube oscilloscope. You know, CRT? Apparently, in German- speaking countries AND in Japan, the CRT is still referred to as the "Braun tube." Braun also shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physics with Guglielmo Marconi, for their work on the development of wireless telegraphy. Marconi, by the way, liberally borrowed from Braun's patented work in some of his own, even ADMITTED to Braun that he stole some of his ideas, and they STILL named the first wireless radios after him. Braun, buddy, you got the shaft. More tech history wrongs righted tomorrow, right back here.
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