December 26
1791: English
mathematician
Charles Babbage, whose difference engine is considered the first programmable calculator,
was born. 1838: Clemens Winkler (no relation to
The Fonz), discoverer
of the element
germanium, was born. 1898: Polish-French scientist Marie Curie discovered
the radioactive element radium while experimenting with pitchblende. 1967: A patent was
issued to the Wham-O company for their
improvement of the
Frisbee. 1975: The Soviet Union inaugurated the world's first supersonic
transport service with a flight of its
Tupolev-144 airliner from Moscow to Alma-Ata. 1982: The Man of the
Year in Time magazine was a computer (first ever non-human), honored as 1982's "greatest
influence for good or evil." 2018: Founding father of the ARPANET
Lawrence Roberts died.
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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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