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Day in Engineering History Archive February 21

Day in Engineering History February 21 Archive - RF CafeBoy Scouts of America Founded  - Please click here to visit RF Cafe.February 21

1842: John Greenough patented the sewing machine. 1865: John Deere received a patent for his plow. 1878: The first U.S. telephone directory of about 50 names was issued by the New Haven Telephone Company, in CT. 1926: Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered superconductivity, died. 1937: The Arrowbile, the first convertible automobile-airplane, made its maiden flight. 1938: George Hale, responsible for the 200-inch telescope bearing his name on Palomar Mountain, died. 1947: Edwin Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds. 1958: The U.S. submarine Gudgeon (SS 567) completed 228 days of circumnavigating the world. 1995: Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

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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.

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