Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1rx">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> <a href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s31/nl/3294173/871d06c1-8930-40e1-99ba-d042ba5d8dbe">VoiceMail</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10157996013383455">Favorite geek/nerd idol</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for August 14, 2019<br> This is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining in 2019.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1457, that Publication of the Mainz Psalter, the first book to feature a printed date of publication and printed colophon.<br> On August 14, 1885, Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.<br> It was on this date in 1888, that An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England.<br> It was 126 years ago today, that France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.<br> 118 years ago today, The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.<br> That same date in 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.<br> Also on August 14, 1959, Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.<br> It was on this date in 1975, that The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Italian mathematician and physicist, Giambattista Benedetti, born on this date in 1530.<br> Danish physicist and chemist, Hans Christian Ørsted was born 242 years ago today.<br> Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author was born on that same date in 1848.<br> American dentist and gambler, Doc Holliday, born on this date in 1851.<br> Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1865.<br> Born August 14, 1866, Belgian mathematician and academic Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin.<br> Frank Oppenheimer, the American physicist and academic was born 107 years ago today.<br> Born August 14, 1914, African-American physicist, chemist, and academic Herman Branson.<br> Also turning 86 today is Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Richard R. Ernst.<br> Also born on that same date in 1945, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter, Steve Martin.<br> Also turning 69 today is American cartoonist Gary Larson.<br> American producer, director, and screenwriter, Brannon Braga, born on this date in 1965.<br> Also born on that same date in 1966, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986, Halle Berry.<br> American chemist and astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, born on this date in 1969.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> 17 – Clive Jevons, Baeumenheim German, Kevin (SusietheGeek’s son and Geek in Training)<br> 19 – Brian Litecky (blitecky)<br> 19 – Matt Rider (The Eagle Scout Geek )<br> 20 – <a href="http://smaccast.org/">Jedi_Kez</a> (aka Brian From Winnipeg)<br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 14, 2019<br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-08-hordes-earth-toughest-creatures-moon.html">Hordes of Earth’s toughest creatures may now be living on Moon</a><br> <br> Hacks & Strange Stories<br> <br> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/mit-invented-a-camera-that-can-read-closed-books-1786522492">MIT Invented a Camera That Can Read Closed Books</a><br>
