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Day in Engineering History Archive February 11
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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.
1650: French mathematician René Descartes, after whom the Cartesian coordinate system was named, died. 1809: Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. 1812: Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a re-districting law that favored his party (the map looked like a salamander) - giving rise to the term "gerrymandering." 1813: Swedish physicist Anders Ekeberg, discoverer of the element tantalum (Ta), was born. 1847: American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, OH. 1868: Jean Foucault, inventor of the Foucault pendulum, died. 1915: Richard Hamming, of error correction code fame, was born. 1970: Osumi, the first Japanese satellite, was launched and made Japan the fourth country to put a satellite into earth orbit. 1973: The National Inventor's Hall of Fame was founded by the USPTO, and new inductees are added on this founding date. 1975: The Tories choose Margaret Thatcher as its first woman leader. 2005: Samuel Alderson, inventor of the crash test dummy, died.
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