Naut's Tidbits & Snippets for Friday, February 6, 2009

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Friday, February 6, 2009

And in Britain: Torn Socks Prevent Progress...

In 1925, John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, built something that “looked like a peep-show device, held together with scrap wood, darning needles, string and sealing wax. His invention was partly mechanical, relying on a spinning metal disk with a spiral of holes to chop up images for... Sign in to see full entry.

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