Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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On this day in 1885, Ottmar Mergenthaler received a patent for a machine for producing printing bars .
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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Edward Weston, an electrical engineer and industrialist who founded the Weston Electrical Instrument Company., was born on this day in 1850.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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Jean Senebier, a naturalist and botanist who demonstrated that green plants consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen under the influence of light, was born on this day in 1742.
Monday, May 5, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions began a journey on the Kon-Tiki raft that lasted for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean and ended with landfall on a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
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On this day in 1961 Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel, was granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
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Naturalist, farmer, explorer, writer and conservationist John Muir was born on this day in 1838. He was one of the key advocates that convinced Teddy Roosevelt to create our national park system.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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Salyut 1 was the first DOS long duration orbital station was launched 37 years ago today.
Friday, April 18, 2008
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George Hitchings, who won the Nobel prize in 1988 for his work on chemotherapy, was born 103 years ago today.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Giovanni Riccioli, the first astronmer to observe a double star, was born 510 years ago today.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
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On this day on 1629 Christiaan Huygens, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light and discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, was born.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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Today is the 265th anniversary of the birth of a man who was throughout his lifetime an extraordinarily learned individual; including interests in mathematics and natural sciences, Thomas Jefferson. He also dabbled in politics.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
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The man who gave the world legos, Ole Kirk Chistiansen, was born on this day in 1891.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
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On this day in 1858 Atlee Burpee, a seedsman who founded the world's largest mail-order seed company, was born.
Friday, April 4, 2008
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Linus Yale, an inventor and manufacturer of locks, including the cylinder or pin tumbler lock known by his name, was born on this day in 1821.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
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On this day in 1966, the Luna 10 spacecraft was launched on its history making voyage to become the first man-made object to orbit the moon.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
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The man who discovered X-rays, won a Nobel prize and set medicine on a new path Wilhelm Rontgen, was born on this day in 1845.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Herman Haupt, civil engineer, manufacturer and inventor, was born on this day in 1817.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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On this day in 1902 Irving W Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine, making the mass production of glass for windows possible.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of the man who was instrumental in helping humanity reach the moon, Werner Von Braun.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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Today is the 140th anniversary of the birth of the man whose experiment did more to tax my already poor vision than any other I performed in Physics lab during my undergraduate career, Robert Andrews Millikan.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
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The father of scientific management, Fredrick Taylor was born 152 years ago today.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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