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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.
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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.
February 10  1863: The fire extinguisher was patented by Alanson Crane. 1865: Heinrich Lenz, Russian physicist who framed Lenz's Law to describe the direction of flow of electric current generated by a wire moving through a magnetic field, died. 1868: Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster, who developed Brewster's Law, which relates the refractive index of a material to its polarizing angle, died. 1879: The electric arc light was used for the first time. 1902: Nobel Prize winner Walter Brattain, co-inventor of the transistor, was born. 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of x-rays, died. 1933: The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City. 1961: The Niagara Falls hydroelectric project began producing power amid a public ceremony. 1996: IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. | ||||||
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