Day in Engineering History Archive - June 10

June 10

1832: Nikolaus Otto, developer of the 4-cycle internal combustion engine, was born. 1836: André-Marie Ampère, after whom the unit of current is named, died. 1854: Bernhard Riemann proposed that space is curved. 1854: The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation. 1909: The SOS distress signal ( − − − • • • − − − ) was used for the first time by the Cunard liner SS Slavonia when it wrecked off the Azores. 1932: Artificial lightning using 10 MV was demonstrated by GE. 1940: Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. 1943: The ball point pen was patented by Laslo Biro. 1952: Mylar became a registered trademark for DuPont's extraordinarily strong polyester film. 1977: Apple Computer shipped its first Apple II. 1996: Intel released the 200 MHz Pentium. 2000: The Millennium Bridge, a footbridge across the River Thames, was opened by Queen Elizabeth.

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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.