Tech History Today – February 2

Hello I'm Tom Merritt with a look at what happened in Tech History Today on February 2nd


In 1046: English monks recorded "no man then alive could remember so severe a winter as this was." They're analog weather blog entry recorded the beginning of the Little Ice Age.


In 1931, Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) with 102 pieces of mail between Schöckl and St. Radegund, Austria.


In 1935: Detective Leonarde Keeler, co-inventor of the Keeler polygraph, tried out the lie detector on two suspected criminals in Portage, Wisconsin. Both suspects were convicted of assault.


Come back tomorrow for more history.

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Published on February 02, 2012 17:51
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