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Day in Engineering History Archive - November 8
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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.
1656: English astronomer Edmond Halley, who discovered the comet that now bears his name, was born. 1881: French aircraft designer Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who developed the concept of ailerons, was born. 1895: Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays ("x" stood for "unknown") during an experiment. 1904: Harvey Hubbell received the first patent for a detachable electric plug/receptacle pair. 1910: William Frost received the first patent for an "electric insect destroyer," aka, a bug zapper. 1918: Lawrence Glendenin, codiscoverer of promethium (Pm, 61), was born. 1923: Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, was born. 1942: "Operation Torch," a British-American invasion into French North Africa, commenced. 1978: Classic American painter Norman Rockwell died. 1984: Anna Fisher became the first "mom" to go into orbit onboard the STS-51A flight of the the second flight of the orbiter Discovery.
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This is Google's homepage logo for the anniversary of Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of x-rays.
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