Day in Engineering History Archive - February 24

Day in Engineering History February 24 Archive - RF CafeFebruary 24

"His Master's Voice" trademarked. Click here to return to the RF Cafe homepage.1663: Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, was born. 1810: Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen and nitrogen, died. 1815: Robert Fulton, whose Clermont was the first truly successful steamboat, died. 1839: William Otis received a patent for the steam shovel. 1856: Russian mathematician Nikolay Lobachevsky, who is credited with developing non-Euclidean geometry, died. 1923: Edward Morley, of Michelson-Morley speed of light measurement fame, died. 1925: RCA's (Victrola Talking Machine Company) "His Master's Voice" was trademark registered. 1942: The Voice of America (VOA) radio began its broadcasts to Nazi occupied nations. 1942: The U.S. Government stopped shipments of all 12-gauge shotguns for sporting use for the wartime effort. 1949: "Bumper 5," the first two-stage rocket to reach outer space was launched from the White Sands Proving Grounds, NM. 1968: The discovery of pulsars was announced by Nature. 1987: An exploding supernova was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

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