Technology
- July 25 - The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast is made.
- September 29 - First domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States – a Westinghouse radio costs $10.
- October - Young Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen first develops the electronic musical instrument which will become the Theremin.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“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)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)