Summary: Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2012/12/under_construction_animated.gif) * Our reactions to Windows 95 * Toy Story Trailer * Star Wars back again... Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-10b) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/-IOtKo_QK0I Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 30 - Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden * 31 - Tim Downing from The High Potency Music Podcast (http://blog.highpotencymusic.com/) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. On This Day In History for August 29, 1995 * It was on this date in 708 that copper coins are minted in Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan) for the first time. * Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction) today in 1831. * The Mount Washington Cog Railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway) opens on August 29, 1869, making it the world's first rack railway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway). * The Goodyear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Tire_and_Rubber_Company) tire company is founded 97 years ago today. * Also on this date in 1907 – The Quebec Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge) collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. * August 29, 1915 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915) – The US Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Navy) salvage divers raise F-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_F-4_(SS-23)), the first U.S. submarine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) sunk in accident. * Today in 1922 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922) – The first radio advertisement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_advertisement) is broadcast on WEAF-AM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC_(AM)) in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City). * The Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union) tests its first atomic bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb) on this date in 1949, known as First Lightning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lightning) or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site), Kazakhstan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan). * The Gemini V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_V) spacecraft returns to Earth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth), landing in the Atlantic ocean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ocean) 30 years ago. * One year later in 1966 – The Beatles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles) perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Park) in San Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco). * And on this date in 1982 – The synthetic chemical element (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element) Meitnerium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitnerium), atomic number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_number) 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_f%C3%BCr_Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany). Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Polish Mathematician Jan Sniadecki, born on this date in 1756 * Also born today in 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician * American engineer and founder of Delco Electronics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delco_Electronics) Charles F. Kettering was born today in 1876 * Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel Prize laureate born today in 91 years ago * English director Richard Attenborough, turns 72 * “Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous” Robin Leach celebrates his 54th birthday * American scientist James Glennon turns 53 * and English physicist and mathematician Stephen Wolfram turns 36 Finally,
