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We over here at Inky Circus know science and song go together like a horse and carriage (Related: "Math, for children. And adults who want to laugh at James Blunt making fun of himself" October 19, 2007 and "Some great science ear candy" August 01, 2007. Not to mention Kate Fink's fabulous list of the Top Ten Science Songs for petri dish slaves)
But this story takes that relationship to a whole new level of awesomeness.
EMI is the parent company of The Beatles’ two record labels, Capitol Records and Apple Records. And it had its fingers in several pies at the time (they gave the BBC its first television transmitter), one of which included R&D in medical imaging technology. So they took the heaps and heaps of money they made off of the sales of some 200 million Beatles singles and used it to fund Sir Godfrey Hounsfield's work on his CT scanner prototype at EMI Central Research Laboratories in Hayes, England. As a result he spent four years tinkering on it. Lo and behold the first EMI-Scanner was installed in a hospital in Wimbledon, England in 1972.
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