It’s National Board Game Day, and we’re going back to the very beginning, the very first board game in US history. Though explaining which game was the very first is slightly complicated.
The physiophone was a Hugo Gernsback invention that turned sound into electrical impulses, so Deaf people could feel the music.
Today in 1735, the birthday of John Adams, the only president who ever spent a night bickering in bed with Benjamin Franklin.
There's a story you see online about how Ford stashed some surplus cars in an underground cave to preserve them until they could sell. We can't verify that entire story, but there is an underground business park in Kansas City that Ford has used for decades.
Today in 1900 a newspaper in Ohio ran a story about how three towns in Indiana had used fence wire as makeshift telephone lines, at a time when phones were more often found in cities. Some of these ingenious systems ran for decades.
