Day in Engineering History Archive - January 14

January 14

1742: English astronomer Edmond Halley, who discovered the comet that now bears his name, died. 1873: "Celluloid" was registered as a trademark by John Hyatt. 1934: French scientist Paul Vieille, inventor of smokeless gun powder, died. 1943: American biochemist Shannon Lucid, who stayed aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996 for a women's record-breaking 188 days, was born. 1981: The FCC freed stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish. 2005: The Huygens space probe landed on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, being the most distant landing.

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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.