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  February 16
1843:
Henry Leland, founder of Cadillac Motors, was born. 1880: The
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was founded during a meeting in NYC in
the office of American Machinist. 1923: The sealed doorway to the sepulchral chamber
of
King Tutankhamen's (Tut) tomb was opened. 1937: Wallace Carothers
received a patent for
nylon. 1946: The four-seat
Sikorsky S51, single rotor helicopter flew as Igor Sikorsky's
first commercially licensed helicopter. 1949: International Rectifier shipped the
first commercial semiconductor devices. 1968: Senator Rankin Fite completed the
first
9-1-1 call made in the United States in Haleyville. 1978: The
first computer bulletin board system (BBS) went online in Chicago,
IL. 1996: Microwave pioneer Ernst Weber died.
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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