1944AC: Inventor and chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. accidentally strangled himself with the cord of a pulley-operated mechanical bed of his own design. Turns out Thomas Midgley, Jr. also invented CFCs but didn’t live long enough to learn what they’d done to the ozone layer. 260AC: Roman emperor Valerian, after being defeated in battle and captured [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Web Remote Control Crane
Harking back to the online coffee pot and office wandering robot, I was pleased to find this gem via hacker news.
