[rescue] The Age of Things [was: Re: my point]

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Message: 2
> On Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 00:20:23 -0400, Chad Fernandez
> <fernande at internet1.net> wrote ...
> 
> > Microwaves were around 30 years ago?
> 
> Nope.  More like _50_ years ago.  The original Raytheon patents were from
> 1945, and they started selling commercial microwave ovens ones right after
> WWII.  Tappan was selling consumer models in the mid 1950s.
> 
> A lot of stuff is much older than you think; Farnsworth's first patents on
> television are from 1927.  People had car phones in the early 50s, etc.

The only reaon car phones and other mobile phones weren't seen much
earlier was that the FCC was really tight with the bandwidth they allowed.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd