The Trojan Room coffee pot - a podcast by BBC World Service

from 2020-04-07T08:30

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The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot so that computer scientists in Cambridge, in the UK, could see if there was any coffee available. Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Martyn Johnson and Paul Jardetzky explained to Rebecca Kesby how they developed it.

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(Photo: The Trojan Room coffee pot)

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