February 21
1842: John Greenough patented the
sewing machine. 1865:
John Deere received a patent for his plow. 1878: The first U.S.
telephone
directory of about 50 names was issued by the New Haven Telephone Company, in CT.
1926: Dutch physicist
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who discovered superconductivity, died. 1937:
The Arrowbile, the first convertible automobile-airplane, made its maiden
flight. 1938:
George Hale, responsible for the 200-inch telescope bearing his name on Palomar Mountain,
died. 1947: Edwin Land publicly demonstrated his
Polaroid
Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds. 1958:
The U.S. submarine Gudgeon (SS 567) completed 228 days of circumnavigating the world.
1995: Chicago stockbroker
Steve
Fossett became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon,
landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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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.
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samples of copyrighted content.
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