CCT#209: Can We Get a Liisa in the House?

On This Wonderful Show!

1. Mac Mini Steampunk’d
2. An Etch-a-sketch clock!
3. A list of obsolete skills

On This Day in Tech History

• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell successfully speaks the first words on a telephone by calling for his assistant.
• 1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
• 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
• 1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says
  that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and
  refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.

Births

• 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
• 1831 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (d. 1901)
• 1835 – Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
• 1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
• 1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d. 1952)
• 1881 – Gunnar Nordstr
  

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