"The Beatles Greatest Contribution"
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daThe world's first CT scanner was designed and built from 1967-1972 by Godfrey Hounsfield, who worked for a lab at Electric and Musical Industries, otherwise known as EMI.
EMI Labs was diversified; they worked on radar and guided missiles during WWII and Britian's first transistor computer in the 50s. But by the late 60s, their profit center was clearly pop music, though they didn't sell off their dev labs.
...Meaning that development of the first CT scanner was funded by profits almost entirely from the Beatles.
EMI Labs was diversified; they worked on radar and guided missiles during WWII and Britian's first transistor computer in the 50s. But by the late 60s, their profit center was clearly pop music, though they didn't sell off their dev labs.
...Meaning that development of the first CT scanner was funded by profits almost entirely from the Beatles.
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Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2007 09:40 pm (UTC)I certainly know about Hounsfield (and Hounsfield units), but I didn't know this aspect of the story......
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Date: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 02:45 am (UTC)