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  February 24
1663:
Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, was
born. 1810: Henry Cavendish, discoverer of hydrogen and nitrogen, died. 1815:
Robert Fulton,
whose Clermont was the first truly successful steamboat, died. 1839: William Otis
received a patent for the
steam
shovel. 1856: Russian mathematician
Nikolay
Lobachevsky, who is credited with developing non-Euclidean geometry, died. 1923:
Edward Morley,
of Michelson-Morley speed of light measurement fame, died. 1925: RCA's (Victrola
Talking Machine Company) "His Master's Voice" was trademark registered. 1942: The
Voice
of America (VOA) radio began its broadcasts to Nazi occupied nations. 1942:
The U.S. Government stopped shipments of all 12-gauge shotguns for sporting use
for the wartime effort. 1949: "Bumper 5," the first two-stage rocket to reach outer space was
launched from the White Sands Proving Grounds, NM. 1968: The discovery of
pulsars was announced by
Nature. 1987:
An exploding supernova was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
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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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