Technology
- August 30 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically powered vacuum cleaner in the U.K.
- November 30 - Frank Hornby of Liverpool is granted a U.K. patent for the construction toy that will become Meccano.
- December 3 - King C. Gillette files a U.S. patent application for his design of safety razor utilizing thin, disposable blades of stamped steel.
- Ernest Godward invents the spiral hairpin in New Zealand.
- Theodore Rall patents his design of rolling lift bridge.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)