Day in Engineering History Archive - October 6
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.
1813: Pioneer watchmaker Edward Howard was born. 1846: George Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and inventor of railway braking systems, was born. 1868: A patent for nickel plating was awarded to William Remington. 1903: Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton, co-inventor of the first nuclear particle accelerator, was born. 1923: Edwin Hubble identified the first Cepheid variable star. 1942: Electric photography (xerography or photocopying) patent was received in by Chester Carlson. 1951: W(ill) K(eith) Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg cereal company, died. 1966: Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was declared illegal in the U.S. 1973: Egypt and Syria launched an attack against Israel, starting the Yom Kippur War. 1987: Microsoft introduced the PC version of Excel. 1995: Astronomers at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland announced the first ever discovery of a planet orbiting the solar-type star, 51 Pegasi.
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