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 March 28
1747: The first in a series of letters from
Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson was sent regarding his experiments
with electricity. 1903: Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, who created a telegraphic code that
eventually replaced Morse Code, and after whom the term "baud" is named, died. 1905:
Cornelius D Ehret received the first patent for a system of frequency
modulation (FM). 1905: Ralph Scott received a patent for an
electric arc lamp. 1923:
James Dewar,
inventor of the flask that bears his name, died. 1935:
Robert Goddard first used gyroscopes to control an A-5 rocket.
1961: Radio pioneer great
Powell Crosley, Jr., died.
1962: U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles
and satellites. 1979: A nuclear accident occurred inside Unit Two reactor at
Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, PA.
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid 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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