Thursday, September 27, 2012

Random fact of the day - Thursday

 The television was invented before sliced bread!

Philo T. Farnsworth of San Francisco, CA patented the first television system on September 7, 1927 - nearly a full year before Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the first bread slicer in Davenport, IA. I guess television COULDN'T be called "the greatest thing since sliced bread!"

You can read more about Farnsworth here.
(Sources: 1, 2, 3)

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