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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.
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.
May 27  1890: A patent was issued for the first jukebox. 1901: The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized. 1909: William Hansen, inventor of the klystron tube, was born. 1919: A U.S. Navy NC-4 flying boat completed the first transatlantic flight. 1937: The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public for foot traffic. 1930: Cellophane transparent adhesive tape was patented by inventor Richard G. Drew, who sold the patent to 3M. 1931: The first U.S. full scale (30 by 60 feet)wind tunnel for testing airplanes was opened in Langley Field Research Center, VA. 1931: Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer became the first humans to venture into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,783 feet. 1941: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 1961: The first black light was sold. 1988: Ernst Ruska, an electrical engineer who invented the electron microscope, died. 1994: The highest temperature produced in a lab was a plasma temperature of 510 M°C in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor operated at Princeton. | ||||||
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