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March 22
  1457: The Gutenberg Bible became the first printed
book. 1868:
Robert Millikan of charged oil drop experiment fame and Nobel
laureate, was born. 1880: The
Grand Rapids Electric Light and Power Co. was organized and became
the first commercial hydroelectric power plant to furnish arc lighting service.
1895: The first
motion picture to be displayed on a screen was shown by Auguste
and Louis Lumière. 1935: A low definition, 180-line television broadcast system
began in Berlin, Germany. 1941: The
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began operations. 1946: The first
U.S.-built rocket (JPL-Ordnance
Wac) to leave the Earth's atmosphere was launched from White Sands,
NM, and attained an altitude of 50 miles. 1948: "The Voice of Firestone"
became the first commercial program to be carried simultaneously on the radio and
television. 1960: The first
maser was patented by Arthur Schawlow and Charles H. Townes, of
Bell Telephone Laboratories. 1981: RCA introduced the
SelectaVision VideoDisc, exactly 10 years after they applied for
the first patents. 1993: Intel introduced the 80586, 64-bit, 60 MHz
Pentium processor.
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.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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