13 September - Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Patents

1904 - Press for wood-veneer trunks or other hollow packages - US 770114 A
https://www.google.com/patents/US770114


Burris Cunningham and Louis Werner isolated first microscopic amount of a compound of americium (Am, element 95) at wartime Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago, 1945.

Polaroid incorporated 1937.

Birthdays

Robert Robinson born 1886: plant pigments, phenanthrene derivatives, and alkaloids; Nobel Prize, 1947
Leopold Ruzicka born 1887: polymethylenes (i.e., cyclic alkanes), terpenes; synthesis of sex hormones; Nobel Prize, 1939

Dorothy Maud Wrinch born 1894: structure of proteins

1953 - David Ulrich - The Boundaryless Organization
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/14858?gko=5762a

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