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  April 2
1872:
Samuel F.B.
Morse, developer of Morse Code, died. 1872:
George Brayton received a patent for the first commercial gas-powered
engine. 1875:
Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Corporation, was born.
1910: Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.
1932: Charles Lindbergh paid $50k ransom in a New York cemetery to a
man who promised to return his kidnapped son. 1934: Set theory mathematician
Paul Cohen
was born. 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in the U.S. 1978: Velcro was put
on the market. 1987: IBM introduced PS/2 & OS/2. 1987: Microsoft introduced
Windows 2.0.
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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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