Day in Engineering History Archive - October 6

October 6

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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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.