26 November Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

1966, President Charles de Gaulle opened the world's first tidal power station at Rance estuary, in Brittany.


Birthdays

1876 - Willis Carrier, American engineer, developed modern air conditioning.
1894 - Norbert Wiener  - Cybernetics
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German Empire, Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973)






2012

Joseph E. Murray, Transplant Doctor and Nobel Prize winner 1990, died on Monday, 26 November 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/health/dr-joseph-e-murray-transplant-doctor-and-nobel-winner-dies-at-93.html

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Discoveries and Inventions

1904 - Patent for the first direct current, interpole, electric motor  in the U.S. was issued to Mathias Pfatischer of Phildadelphia, Pennsylvania under the title "Variable Speed Motor" (No.775,310).
The improvement claimed in the patent was to "effect commutation without sparking, with a variable load as well as at variable speed and which is capable of rotation in either direction." The new design added auxiliary-field pole-pieces which were small as compared to the main pole-pieces.

1932 - , the first U.S. patent for a pump with computing facility was issued to the inventors, Robert J. Jauch, Ivan R. Farnham and Ross H. Arnold for their "Liquid Dispensing Apparatus" (No. 1,888,533). The pump with the computing facility metered and displayed the exact gallons of gasoline or other liquid dispensed, and also accurately computed and showed the price in dollars and cents of the quantity delivered.


1941, in the Federal Register, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration specified the first minimum daily requirements for dietary supplements - for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium, iron, iodine, and phosphorus.

1977 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.

Birthdays

1809 -  Benedict Augustin Morel - Austrian-born French psychologist. He used  the term dementia praecox to refer to a mental and emotional deterioration beginning at the time of puberty. The disorder was renamed schizophrenia in 1908 by the Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler. He authored  700-page book "Traité des dégenerescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l'espèce humaine" in 1857.  In it he described many physical signs - various malformations - and  various intellectual and moral deviations from the normal that are to be charatcertized as mental sickness.

1904 - Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel - French physicist who shared, (with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén) the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids. His contributions to solid-state physics were used in the development of improved computer memory units.

1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley - English physiologist -  (with Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir John Carew Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - the chemical phenomena - the “sodium pump” mechanism - by which nerve impulses are transmitted.



How Musical Instrument Digital Interface changed the world of music?
Tom Bateman - Today Programme - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20425376

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1477 -  English printer William Caxton produced the first book printed in England, Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres (Sayings of the Philosophers).

 1845 -  Charles Thurber was issued a U.S. patent for a Writing Machine he named the Chirographer (No. 4272).

1970, Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling declared this day that large doses of Vitamin C could ward off the common cold.

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Birthdays of Discoverers (Scientists and Philosophers) and Inventors

1897 - Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett - Nobel Prize Physics - Also contributed to OR

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1925 -  Dr. W. Blair Bell gave a lecture in London, advocating treatment of cancer with colloidal lead injections. The May 1926 issue of Popular Science Monthly said he injected the metal  into veins near the cancerous growth and claimed that in seventeen years of testing, out of about 200 cases treated, most of them thought hopeless, almost fifty were entirely and permanently cured.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LyoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.cancerprogress.net/timeline/major-milestones-against-cancer
http://www.cancer.gov/research/progress/250-years-milestones
http://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/features/fifty-years-of-milestones-in-cancer-research

1970, a U.S. patent was issued for the computer mouse - an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System" (No. 3541541).

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Birthday

1805 - Thomas Brassey - He built 10,000 km of railway in Britain, India and many other countries
1886 - Chester Barnard - Author of Functions of Executive
1878 - Lise Meitner
1942 - Tom Peters


Nobel Prize Winners
1867 - Marie Curie

1888 - Sir C.V. Raman, Bharat Ratna, Nobel Prize Winner, 1930 for Raman scattering
Raman Scattering Theory
http://plaza.ufl.edu/dwhahn/Raman%20Scattering%20Theory.pdf
Biography of C.V. Raman

Events

1876 - Patent for Cigarette manufacturing machine was issued (184,207)

1908 -  Prof. Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter. *

1918 -  Robert Goddard demonstrated a tube-launched solid propellant rocket, using a music stand as his launching platform,

1940 - Collapse of Tacoma Bridge near city of Tacoma, Washington

1997 - Yangtze River blocked for new dam


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1899 - Aluminum was first used as electric conductor.
1924 -  The first photographs sent by radio across the Atlantic as a public demonstration were received in New York and published next day in the New York Herald Tribune.
1954 - Meteorite struck a woman.


2012

Presence of Water - Ice on Mercury is confirmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553879

Birthdays of  Engineers, Managers, Professors, Researchers and  Scientists 

Nobel Prize Winners

1869 - Nils Gustaf Dalen - 1912 Nobel in Physics
1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian - 1932 Nobel in Medicine
1915 -   Henry Taube - Canadian-born American chemist - Awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1983  for his extensive research into the oxidation-reduction processes involving the ions of metallic elements.
       http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1983/taube-lecture.html
       http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1983/taube.html
1926 - Andrew V. Schally - 1977 Nobel in Medicine

Others
1793 - Joseph Lukas Schonlein - helped in teaching medicine as natural science.
1819 - Cyrus West Field - US enterpreneur who promoted transatlantic telephone line between New York and London
1858 - Jagadish Chandra Bose
1899 - Andrew Jackson Moyer - mass production of pencillin




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Objectives and Goals - Review Notes

2012

Presence of Water - Ice on Mercury is confirmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553879

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1985, the first discovery of a fullerene was published in the journal Nature by the American chemists Robert F. Curl, Jr. and Richard E. Smalley, and Sir Harold W. Kroto of the University of Sussex, England.

1922 - The BBC officially opened and began its daily domestic radio service broadcasting with the 6:00pm news read by Arthur Burrows from 2LO, Marconi House, London.




Birthdays

Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz (1716) - Mathematician (developed calculus), Logician, Philosopher
Robert Fulton (1765) - Designed and constructed the first successful steam boat Clemont.
Leo Hendrick Baekeland (1863) - Inventor of Bakelite
Edward H White II (1930) - First US Astronaut to walk in space.


Nobel Prize Winners

Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891) - Physiology - Extraction of hormone insulin



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Birthdays

1814 - Adolphe Sax - Inventor Saxophone

1886 - Chester Barnard

1968 Jerry Yang  - Yahoo


Events

1899, James Packard and his brother, William Doud Packard, had finished building a car of their own design, and gave it a road test on the streets of Warren, Ohio.



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2013 - An experiment that is an advance in fusion process.
            http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-powered-lasers-deliver-fusion-energy-breakthrough/

1895 - the first U.S. patent for a paper pencil was issued to Fredrick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia, Pa.(patent No. 549,952) Patent  No. 550,212 was issued  on the same date on a machine for manufacturing pencils.

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Birthdays

1909 - Peter Drucker

1935 Jack Welch - General Electric


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Patents

1949 Typewriter ribbon and spool - H.J. Hart - No. 2486473
         http://www.google.com/patents/US2486473

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1772, Antoine Lavoisier reported that in the previous week he had discovered that sulphur and phosphorus when burned increased in weight because they absorbed “air,” while the metallic lead formed when litharge was heated with charcoal weighed less than the original litharge because it had lost “air.”

1796, the first permanent typefoundry in the U.S. was  established by Archibald Binny and James Ronaldson. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1873, Joseph F. Glidden began manufacturing his new invention of barbed wire, having filed for a patent a few days before, on 27 Oct 1873

1879, Edison signed the patent application for his electric lamp (issued 27 Jan 1880 as U.S. Patent 223,898).

1879, the world's first all-steel railroad bridge was placed in service over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, built for the Chicago & Alton railroad by Gen. William Sooy Smith.

1884, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted universally at a meeting of the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, USA. From then the International Date Line was drawn up and 24 time zones created.

1901, Dr. J.E. Gillman announced an X-ray treatment for breast cancer.

1939, a rabbit conceived by artificial impregnation, was the first such animal in the U.S. to be displayed.

1952, in the first United States test of a thermonuclear device, a hydrogen bomb dubbed “Mike,” was exploded at Eniwetok Atholl in the Pacific, 3,000 miles west of Hawaii.

1957, the world's longest suspension bridge, the Mackinac Straits Bridge between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, opened at five miles long.

1977, Chiron, the farthest known asteroid was discovered.

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Birthdays

Famous people born in November
http://www.famouswhy.com/Born_Today/Month/11.html


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1931, The DuPont company, of Wilmington, Delaware, announced the first synthetic rubber.

1936, the world's first high-definition television service began by the BBC from studios and transmitters at Alexandra Palace, in north London.

1947, Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, known as the Spruce Goose on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.

1950, concentrated milk was first test-marketed in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware.

1955, American investigators Carlton Schwerdt and F.L. Schaffer crystallized the polio virus.

1957, the first titanium mill was opened in Toronto, Ohio by the Titanium Metals Corp. of America (TIMET).

1977, the identification of methanogens, a form of life dating back some 3.5 billion years, was reported by scientists at the University and Illinois.
Need to check this point. A printed paper shows May as the month
http://aem.asm.org/content/33/5/1162.full.pdf

1988, a computer "worm" unleashed by a Cornell University graduate student, Robert T. Morris, began replicating wildly, clogging thousands of computers around the country.

2000, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts became the first permanent residents of the international space station, at the start of their four-month mission.

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1863, the first U.S. patent for an antifouling paint for ships' hulls was issued to J.G. Tarr and A.H. Wonson (No. 40515) for a copper oxide, tar and naptha mixture.

1863, the first U.S. yeast preparation patent was issued to J.T. Alden of Cincinnati, Ohio (No. 40,451), for "an improvement in the preparation of yeast" which reduced concentrated yeast from a plastic or semi-fluid state to a dry granular form, a convenient way of preservation for future use.

1892, the first automatic telephone exchange, using the switching device invented by Almon B. Strowger,  opened to the public in LaPorte, Indiana.

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1845, Michael Faraday, working in his laboratory at the Royal Institution, hung a piece of heavy glass between the poles of an electro-magnet and observed that the glass aligned itself across the lines of force of the magnet.

1846, the first U.S. patent for an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire (No. 4,834).

1873, the first U.S. patent was issued for a meat-slicing machine to Anthony Iske of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (No. 144,206).

1873, the first U.S. patent for a gold crown was issued: to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on "artificial crowns for teeth" (No. 144,182).

1879, James Jacob Ritty (1837-1918) with help from his brother John invented the first cash register, intended to combat stealing by bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant, his Dayton, Ohio saloon.

1879, African-American Thomas Elkins patented a refrigerating apparatus (No. 221,222) designed for chilling or cooling food, or even, according to the patent, human corpses.

1939, the first air-conditioned automobile was exhibited by its manufacturer, Packard Motor Co. of Detroit Michigan.


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In 1895, George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first U.S. patent for a gasoline-driven automobile. In the patent, which he had filed several years earlier, on 8 May 1879, he described not only the engine but also a complete automobile incorporating such features as a clutch, compressed air self-starter, and steering system (No. 549,160).

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-selden-patents-gas-powered-car

Lot of information and photos on Selden patent and cars
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1931, Fredrick Allison, working in Alabama, reported (erroneously) the discovery of "alabamine", element 85, now known as astatine, the heaviest halogen


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1974, the discovery of the "charmed quark" subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by the two American experimental groups responsible

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1856, English inventor, Henry Bessemer was issued US Patent No. 16,082 for his “Manufacture of Iron and Steel” process, having previously taken out a British patent for his “decarbonization process, utilizing a blast of air” that revolutionised steel manufacturing (No. 66/1855, 10 Jan 1855).


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http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/33/Henry-Bessemer.html

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1732, Henri Pitot read a paper to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris about an instrument he had invented to measure the flow velocity at different depths of water in the River Seine



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In 1998, the discovery of the 1,000th pulsar in our galaxy was announced in a press release by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, using the 64-meter Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.

About pulsars - http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/camphy/pulsars/pulsars_index.htm
Discovery of 1000th Pulsar - http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/news/1998/pr9803.html


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1960, a U.S. patent was issued for an alkaline dry-cell to P.A. Marsal, Karl Kordesch and Lewis F. Urry (No. 2,960,558). They  assigned it to the Union Carbide Corporation, the manufacturer of Eveready batteries

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