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 March 12
 1824 German physicist
Gustav Kirchhoff,
who formulated Kirchhoff's Laws of current and voltage in closed circuits, was
born. 1831: Auto maker Clement Studebaker, the world's largest producer of horse-drawn
vehicles, was born. 1894:
Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time. 1914:
George
Westinghouse, founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and inventor of railway
braking systems, died. 1923: Astronaut Wally Schirra, the only man to fly in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
spaceships, was born. 1925: Japanese Nobel laureate
Leo Esaki, who pioneered work on electrons tunneling in solids,
was born. 1929: G.L. Pierce received a patent for the
basketball. 1942: Nobel laureate
Sir William
Bragg, after whom Bragg's Law of diffraction is named, died. 1951:
Dennis the Menace first appeared in the funny pages.
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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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small samples of copyrighted content.
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