Amazing fact about the invention of the lighter
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Who invented FM radio?
Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in the 1930s, and it offered much clearer sound with less static than AM.
Reference: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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What's on channel 1?
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to Mobile Services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That's why your TV
set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
Necessity is the mother of Invention, but chocolate can work too.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.