People+in+Technology

A fascinating topic that goes on and on ... here are a few quick thoughts.

Alexander Graham Bell (telephone)

Guglielmo Marconi (radio)

Samuel Morse (morse code + telegraph)

Claude Chappe (semaphore)

William Sturgeon (electromagnet)

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (television camera)

John Logie Baird - television

Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney (Atari - first home video game consoles)

Linden Labs - Second Life

Charles P. Ginsberg (VTR and VCR)

Apple Quicktake camera - first digital camera for home-level market

Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), -first pinhole camera (100AD)

Louis Daguerre - camera

George Eastman - film

August and Louis Lumiere - filmmakers

And for a real twist, what about How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning @http://www.bartleby.com/246/644.html

Or the story of the marathon ... The modern Athens Marathon commemorates the run of the soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. Legend has it that Pheidippides delivered the momentous message "Niki!" ("victory"), then collapsed and died