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||1935: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. Pic. | ||1935: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. Pic. | ||
||1936: Julius Nieuwland dies ... priest, chemist and academic ... contributions to acetylene research and its use as the basis for one type of synthetic rubber, which eventually led to the invention of neoprene. Pic. | |||
||1937: R. J. Mitchell dies ... engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire. Pic. | ||1937: R. J. Mitchell dies ... engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire. Pic. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.