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 1850:
Edward
Weston, founder of the Weston Electrical Instrument Company, was born. 1865:
A patent was issued to Richard Gatling for his
Gatling gun. 1882: William Ford was issued a patent for his now-familiar
stethoscope. 1893: Thomas Edison exhibited the first public motion
picture (kinetoscope) to an audience in Brooklyn, NY. 1914:
Paul-Louis-Toussaint
Héroult, inventor of the electric arc furnace, died. 1914:
C.W. Post,
founder of Post Cereal Company, died. 1926: Americans
Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first men to fly an
airplane over the North Pole. 1927:
Canberra
replaced Melbourne as the capital of Australia. 1931: Nobel physicist
Albert Michelson, who first accurately measured the speed of light,
died. 1961: Then FCC chairman Newton N. Minow condemned television programming as
a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
1962: A
laser beam was successfully bounced off the Moon for the first
time.
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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.
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