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Day in Engineering History Archive - March 17
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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.
1762: The first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in New York City. 1834: Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and pioneer automobile manufacturer, was born. 1845: The rubber band was patented by Stephen Perry of London. 1953: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, died. 1846: Friedrich Bessel, of Bessel function fame, assumed room temperature. 1853: Austrian physicist Christian Doppler, of Doppler effect fame, died. 1950: Scientists at the University of CA at Berkeley announced a new radioactive element, number 98, which they named "californium" (Cf). 1958: The Vanguard 1, the world's oldest satellite still in orbit, was launched by the U.S. 1967: Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine. 1974: The Arab oil embargo was lifted by OPEC, during which time OPEC members earned more than $100 billion (a nice bit of extra loot for funding terrorism worldwide). 1999: Intel released the Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ Processor. 1999: America Online completed the acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation. 2007: Fortran creator John Backus died.
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