Day in Engineering History Archive - January 9

Day in Engineering History January 9 Archive - RF CafeJanuary 9

1793: Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia, PA, and Woodbury, N.J. 1848: English astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a new comet, died. 1894: "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" was released in movie theaters. 1939: The discovery of element Fr (francium) was reported by French chemist Marguerite Perey. 1951: The United Nations headquarters building in NYC officially opened. 1956: Snoopy from the Peanuts comic strip (my favorite) walked on two legs for the first time. 1958: Willis Whitney, who founded the General Electric research laboratory, died. 1986: Kodak exited the instant camera business after losing a patent lawsuit with Polaroid. 1998: Scientists announced the discovery that some galaxies are actually accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds. 2007: Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone.

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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. Many 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. Images used in the logos are often from open source websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to the source where possible. Fair Use laws permit small samples of copyrighted content.