January 13
1864:
Wilhelm Carl Werner
Otto Fritz Franz Wien, who formulated the black body radiation displacement law,
was born. 1903: Granville Woods was issued a patent for an "Electric Railway System" of the type that "current for the car-motor
is taken from working contacts or conductors along the road bed." 1906: Hugo Gernsback,
of the Electro Importing
Company, advertised radio receivers for sale for $8.50 in "Scientific American" magazine.
1920: A New York Times editorial proclaimed
rockets can never fly. 1930:
Sebastian de Ferranti, an electrical engineer who developed the first
10 kV (4x previous) transmission system and components, died. 1942: Henry Ford patented
a
plastic automobile, which allowed for a 30% decrease in car weight.
1942: The first use of an ejection seat to save a pilot was made by German test pilot Mr. Schenk.
2000: Microsoft chairman
Bill Gates
stepped aside as CEO and promoted company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
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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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