Day in Engineering History Archive - May 10

Day in Engineering History May 10 Archive - RF CafeMay 10

1788: Optics researcher Augustin Fresnel was born. 1829: Thomas Young, after whom Young's Modulus of elasticity was named, died. 1869: The Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed with the driving of a special "golden spike" during a ceremony at Promontory Point, UT. 1928: The first U.S. television station, WGY, began regular broadcasting. 1933: The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany. 1940: Pacifist Neville Chamberlain was replaced by Winston Churchill. 1960: The USS Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. 1979: A world record 32 MV was generated by the National Electrostatics Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN.

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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.