On This Wonderful Show!
- Mac Mini Steampunk’d
- An Etch-a-sketch clock!
- 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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