Here are some cold remedies to help you beat a summer cold and get back to enjoying the heat: 1  Take an over-the-counter (OTC) decongestant to unclog a stuffy nose. 2  Use a saline spray to irrigate the nose and keep mucus loose.  Take an OTC pain reliever (like Tylenol) to reduce fever and manage pain.
The 1940s and 1950s. Cable television originated in the United States almost simultaneously in Arkansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania in 1948 to enhance poor reception of over-the-air television signals in mountainous or geographically remote areas.
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD (1888-1946). It was in his rooms in Soho, London, that in 1925 John Logie Baird made a technical breakthrough: successfully transmitting a 30-line vertically scanned image of the head of a ventriloquist's dummy. A Scottish engineer, Baird is considered to be the inventor of the television.he brilliant Christopher Cockerell came up with one of the greatest British inventions of the second half of the 20th century: the hovercraft.