Day in Engineering History Archive - November 18

Day in Engineering History November 18 Archive - RF CafeNovember 18

Happy Birthday Alan Shepard - RF Cafe1787: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, who produced the first permanent photograph, was born. 1883: The U.S. and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones due a decision of the American Railway Association. 1903: The U.S. and Panama signed a treaty that granted the U.S. rights to build the Panama Canal. 1913: The first airplane in the U.S. to perform a loop-the-loop was piloted by Lincoln Beachey in San Diego, CA. 1923: Alan Shepard, America's first man in space and one of only 12 humans who have walked on the Moon, was born. 1949: Frank Jewett, the first president of Bell Telephone Labs, died. 1962: Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr, developer of the planetary Bohr atomic model, died. 1963: The first telephone in the U.S. with push buttons instead of a rotary dial was placed in commercial service. 1999: 12 Aggies were killed when a ritual bonfire at Texas A&M collapsed on them during construction.

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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.