Day in Engineering History Archive - May 12
May 12
1909:
Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, was born.
1926: The airship
Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. 1930:
The first planetarium in the U.S. opened to the public, the
Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL. 1936: The
Dvorak typewriter keyboard was patented. 1940: The Nazi conquest
of France began with the crossing
Meuse River. 1942: A Nazi
U-boat sunk an American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River.
1958: The U.S. & Canada formed the North American Air Defense
Command (NORAD).
1978: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced
that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
1980: The first nonstop crossing of U.S. via balloon began. 1994:
Roy Plunkett, inventor of Teflon, died.
1909:
Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, was born.
1926: The airship
Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. 1930:
The first planetarium in the U.S. opened to the public, the
Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL. 1936: The
Dvorak typewriter keyboard was patented. 1940: The Nazi conquest
of France began with the crossing
Meuse River. 1942: A Nazi
U-boat sunk an American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River.
1958: The U.S. & Canada formed the North American Air Defense
Command (NORAD).
1978: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced
that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
1980: The first nonstop crossing of U.S. via balloon began. 1994:
Roy Plunkett, inventor of Teflon, died.| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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.
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from postage stamps from the country where the person or event occurred.