RF Cafe Homepage
Innovative Power Products (IPP) RF Combiners / Dividers

Windfreak Technologies Frequency Synthesizers - RF Cafe

LadyBug RF Power Sensors

Please Support RF Cafe by purchasing my  ridiculously low-priced products, all of which I created.

RF Cascade Workbook for Excel

RF & Electronics Symbols for Visio

RF & Electronics Symbols for Office

RF & Electronics Stencils for Visio

RF Workbench

T-Shirts, Mugs, Cups, Ball Caps, Mouse Pads

These Are Available for Free

Espresso Engineering Workbook™

Smith Chart™ for Excel

Rigol DHO1000 Oscilloscope - RF Cafe

Day in Engineering History Archive - March 22

March 22

Robert Millikan's Birthday. Click here to return to the RF Cafe homepage.Day in Engineering History March 22 Archive - RF Cafe1457: 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.

| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |

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.

Rigol DHO1000 Oscilloscope - RF Cafe
dB Control dB-9006 Magnum Opus Synthesizer - RF Cafe

Werbel Microwave (power dividers, couplers)

Temwell Filters