[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The person who wrote this did not check history. First window AC was 1918. Swamp type AC were even older. TV is older. Frozen food was 1923 ETC

[PAR35]

The person who wrote this did not check history.

You are being kind and generous.

TV - First televised speech by Herbert Hoover, 1927. THere was a demonstration in Scotland a year ealier. The Germans began the first television broadcast services in 1936.

Air conditioning - First air conditioner, 1902. First air conditioned theater (Montgomery, ALA) 1917. US House of Reps ACed 1928, Senate chamber, 1929.

[JennysCool]

I wonder if anyone's ever investigated to find out who actually writes these things that sweep around the 'net. George Carlin and Ted Nugent can't do them all!

[Question Liberal Authority]

Grandma was born before fact checking.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

She's obviously forgotten about the later Tommy Dorsey recordings, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over Satan", "All The Things You Are, I Worship Dark Lord Of The Abyss" and "I'm In The Mood For Human Sacrifice".

[R. Scott]

…was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods …

Television came to be in the 1920’s, the Federal Radio Commission adopted broadcasting rules in 1929.
Penicillin was in wide usage by the Allied military by 1942.
Polio shots came around in 1955.
The first quick-frozen vegetables, fruits, seafoods, and meat were sold to the public for the first time in 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, under the trade name Birds Eye Frosted Foods®.

Grandma has to be a lot older than 58.

[Jet Jaguar]

Before she died, I asked my Great-Grandmother what she thought to greatest invention was.

She replied quickly, "Oh that is easy, the electric starter on cars."

She was a tiny thing at 19 years. She would have to wake her brother up at 6 a.m. to start the car, so she could get to work.

She hated having to wake him, but she could not crank it to start.

[Restorer]

First American patent for a clothes dryer was granted in 1892.

[HungarianGypsy]

When did contact lenses come out? My dad was wearing them in the early '50s.

[Restorer]

The first practical dishwasher was invented by a woman named Josephine Cochran in 1886. They did not begin appearing in homes until the 1950s.

[SunkenCiv]

I used to work with a woman who first became a grandmother at 26. But anyway...

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The Boy Who Invented Television: A Story of Inspiration, Persistence and Quiet Passion by Paul Schatzkin

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[Smokin' Joe]

My wife (Grandma) just tells the kids she is "Older than dirt."