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   December 26
1791: English mathematician
Charles Babbage,
whose difference engine is considered the first programmable calculator, was born.
1838: Clemens
Winkler (no relation to
The Fonz),
discoverer of the element germanium, was born. 1898: Polish-French scientist Marie Curie
discovered the radioactive element radium while experimenting with pitchblende.
1967: A patent was
issued to the Wham-O company for their
improvement of the
Frisbee. 1975: The Soviet Union inaugurated the world's first
supersonic transport service with a flight of its
Tupolev-144 airliner from Moscow to Alma-Ata. 1982: The Man of
the Year in Time magazine was a computer (first ever non-human), honored as 1982's
"greatest influence for good or evil." 2018: Founding father of the ARPANET
Lawrence Roberts died.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) 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.
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small samples of copyrighted content.
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