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  December 10
1804:
Karl
Gustav Jacob Jacobi, founder of elliptical functions, was born. 1831:
Thomas
Seebeck, who discovered that an electric current flows between different conductive
materials that are kept at different temperatures (Seebeck Effect), died. 1845: Civil engineer Robert Thompson patented
pneumatic tires in London. 1896: Swedish chemist
Alfred Nobel,
who invented dynamite and who began the Nobel Prize system, died. 1901: The
First Nobel Prize award ceremony was held. 1910:
Frank Conrad,
owner of more than 200 patents, developer the first commercial radio station, and
coiner of the term "broadcast," died. 1920: Automobile maker
Horace
Dodge died. 1954: Lt. Col. John Paul Stapp, a flight surgeon, rode a rocket sled
to 632 mph to determine if a pilot could eject from an airplane at supersonic speed
and live - he did. 1958: The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the
U.S. as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from NYC to Miami. 1993: The
crew of the space shuttle "Endeavour" deployed the repaired Hubble Space Telescope
into Earth orbit. 2004: EU transport ministers gave final approval to build and
deploy the Galileo satellite navigation system.
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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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