Template:Are You Sure/April 9

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Blue Lace Hooks (1958) starring Lana Turner and Red Buttons. Poster courtesy Gnomon Chronicles Film Board.

• ... that physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck (9 April 1770 – 10 December 1831) discovered the thermoelectric effect, where a junction of dissimilar metals produces an electric current when exposed to a temperature gradient?

• ... that mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz (9 April 1865 – 26 October 1923) promoted the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States?

• ... that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) made the oldest known recording of an audible human voice, a visual recording of audio data; and that it was first be played back in 2008?

• ... that Blue Lace Hooks is a 1958 erotic thriller film starring Lana Turner and Red Buttons?