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Day in Engineering History Archive - December 20
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Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there is a lot of
wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with
authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks
have been verified. All will eventually be either verified or removed.
Please submit significant
historical events and dates for inclusion in these lists. I will be glad to include your name and
birthday. Please do not submit your death date ;-)
A couple years ago, I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with special
RF Cafe logos. Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred.
1868: American industrialist Harvey Firestone, who founded the tire company that bears his name, was born. 1879: Thomas Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, NJ. 1880: New York's Broadway was first lighted by electricity and became known as the "Great White Way." 1901: American physicist and high voltage experimenter Robert Van de Graaff was born. 1921: German physician Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri Dish, died. 1945: The Office of Price Administration announced the end of tire rationing. 1946: Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premiered. 1951: At 1:50 p.m., the first electricity ever generated by atomic power was produced by the EBR-1 turbine generator at the Argonne National Laboratory. 1952: Einsteinium (Es, 99) discovered. 1996: American astronomer and writer, producer of the "Cosmos" series, Carl Sagan died (see Butthead Astronomer).
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