Interesting History Facts
1925 Red double-decker buses enter service in London. In-flight movie offered by German airline. Frisbee is invented – by Yale students, using empty plates used to hold pies from the Frisbie Baking Company.
1926 Scottish engineer John Logie Baird demonstrates a machine that transmits movie pictures using radio technology, calling it a “televisor”, based on a 1884 idea by German Paul Nipkow. (But the mechanical TV system is beaten to general use by Philo Farnsworth’s design of 1928.)
1927 25-year old Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop from New York to Paris in Spirit of St Louis. First transatlantic phone call – at $75 for 3 minutes, half the cost of a car.
