By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 2/27/2008
Winter Conference 2008
If you've checked this website before you know that I sketch the various speakers at SCBWI chidren's book industry events and post them. With a little encouragement from writer/artist Mary Peterson, I did a little bit more this time and...
By: Kate,
on 6/21/2007
Kate OUP-US
Before the iPod, the discman, or even the walkman there was the LP, the “Long Playing Disc”. On this day in 1948 Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS unvelied the LP, and by doing so, revolutionized the music industry. Below is an excerpt from the American National Biography Online, by Charles W. Carey, Jr., about Dr. Goldmark.
Goldmark, Peter Carl (2 Dec. 1906-7 Dec. 1977), inventor, was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Alexander Goldmark, a hatmaker, and Emmy (maiden name unknown). (more…)
