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||1918: Korbinian Brodmann dies ... neurologist and academic. | ||1918: Korbinian Brodmann dies ... neurologist and academic. | ||
File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born. ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] born. ''The New York Times'' will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | ||
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||1939: The first U.S. patent for dispensing liquids under pressure from a disposable container was issued to Julius Seth Kahn of New York City (No. 2,170,531). The patent was titled "Apparatus For Mixing a Liquid With a Gas," but was the predecessor of the aerosol spray can. In this case, the patent more particularly specified a use for whipping cream "by discharging the cream and gas mixture through a constricted orifice." The cream could be contained in a common soda-pop glass bottle. Gas could be introduced at controlled pressure. An inexpensive valve discharged the whipped cream. Its use was extended to applications such as dispensing paints, pharmaceuticals and insecticides. | ||1939: The first U.S. patent for dispensing liquids under pressure from a disposable container was issued to Julius Seth Kahn of New York City (No. 2,170,531). The patent was titled "Apparatus For Mixing a Liquid With a Gas," but was the predecessor of the aerosol spray can. In this case, the patent more particularly specified a use for whipping cream "by discharging the cream and gas mixture through a constricted orifice." The cream could be contained in a common soda-pop glass bottle. Gas could be introduced at controlled pressure. An inexpensive valve discharged the whipped cream. Its use was extended to applications such as dispensing paints, pharmaceuticals and insecticides. | ||
||1940: Oliver Lodge dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1940: Oliver Lodge dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1941: Plasma physicist and academic Hannspeter Winter born. He will research hollow atoms. Pic search | ||1941: Plasma physicist and academic Hannspeter Winter born. He will research hollow atoms. Pic search. | ||
||1945: Ida Henrietta Hyde dies ... physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. Pic. | ||1945: Ida Henrietta Hyde dies ... physiologist known for developing a micro-electrode powerful enough to stimulate tissue chemically or electronically, yet small enough to inject or remove tissue from a cell. Pic. | ||
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1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.