Day in Engineering History Archive - November 22

November 22

1900: Wiley Post, who made the first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) in his Lockheed Vega 5B single-engine aircraft, was born. 1902: U.S. Army pathologist Walter Reed, after whom the Walter Reed Hospital is named, died. 1904: The first direct current, variable speed, interpole electric motor was patented by Mathias Pfatischer. 1907: American astronomer Asaph Hall, who discovered and named the two moons of Mars Phobos and Deimos, died. 1909: Wilbur and Orville Wright formed the Wright Company, which would become a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of airplanes. 1927: The first U.S. patent for a snowmobile "vehicle for snow travel" was issued to Carl Eliason. 1935: A Pan American Airways China Clipper made the first commercial aircraft crossing of the Pacific. 1944: English astrophysicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington died. 1963: President J.F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, TX. 1972: The U.S. ended a 22-year travel ban to China. 1988: The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber was first revealed to the public. 1990: Margaret Thatcher announced her resignation as British Prime Minister. 2005: Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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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.