AUGUST 26TH

• 1938: a tape recorder was used for the first time to send a radio broadcast

• 1743: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was born. He is considered to be ‘the father of modern chemistry’ and is responsible for naming oxygen and determining what role it plays in combustion and respiration.
• 1874: Lee de Forest was born. He invented the Audion vacuum tube which made it live broadcasting possible.