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Friday Linkapalooza - August 8,...
Happy Friday! Start your weekend off right with fun articles and videos collected by your friends at Bask in this week's Friday Linkapalooza. Enjoy!
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We’re a bunch of geeks at heart and that means that we love to be creative. Browse some fun factoids, find out what we’re working on next and what’s happening in the world of whole home support by reading our blogs below.
Britain's Official Adoption of ...
In 1847 and 1848, the majority of British railway companies adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in an attempt to standardize arrival and departure times.
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Happy Birthday, George Eastman
George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, learned how to overcome adversity and embrace work and invention to become one of the world's great entrepreneurs.
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Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla is one of the most colorful characters in the history of technology, his inventions and experiments continuing to fascinate us today.
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35 Years Walking with the Walkm...
The idea for the Walkman came when Sony co-founder Masuru Ibuka asked one of his designers to create a cassette player developed specifically for on the go.
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Remembering Edwin Armstrong, th...
It may seem old hat today, but in 1933, American electrical engineer Edwin Armstrong changed modern communication forever when he invented something called wide-band frequency modulation—or FM radio
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Friday Linkapalooza - June 13, ...
Happy Friday! Start your weekend off right with fun articles and videos collected by your friends at Bask in this week's Friday Linkapalooza. Enjoy!
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36 Years Since the First Speak ...
Speak & Spell was a handheld computer for children with several exciting traits: a display screen, program cartridges and an artificial human voice.
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Take a Test Drive with Henry Fo...
On June 4, 1896, a young and ambitious engineer employed by the Edison Illuminating Company put an experiment to the test. The experiment was a self-propelled vehicle called the Quadricycleand the engineer went by the name of Henry Ford.
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Flying High with Auguste Piccar...
On May 27, 1931, Swiss-born aeronautical pioneer Auguste Piccard, together with his co-pilot Paul Kipfer, did something rather amazing. Encased in an aluminum capsule attached to a hydrogen balloon, they slowly made their way from Earth up into the stratosphere, the first humans to do so, and reaching an altitude of 51,775 feet—almost ten miles. […]
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