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| NEWSLETTER - JULY 9 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on July 9. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. |
| Quotations for Today |
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| QUIZ |
| Births |
| On 9/10 July 1856, at the stroke of midnight, a Serbian-American inventor was born who designed and built the first alternating current induction motor in 1883. George Westinghouse bought his patents for his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to use the system at Niagara Falls and power the city of Buffalo, NY. Can you name this inventor? |
| Elias Howe, an American inventor, was born 9 Jul 1819. Although he wasn't the first to create a particular type of machine, he was the first in the U.S. to pursue it and was granted a patent on his own machine on 10 Sep 1846. Commercial success came slowly, requiring the defense of his patent against the better marketed machine of another more well-known person in the same industry. Eventually Howe gained riches, but died young at 49. By then, machine helped revolutionize the factory and in the home. What was Howe's invention? |
| Deaths |
| The inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor (1855-1932) began in 1895 by producing a crude version of a disposable razor blade. A utopian, he wrote four books translating his business experience into social theories, culminating with The People's Corporation (1924). Can you name this inventor? |
| Events |
| On 9 Jul of a certain year, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, at Provident Hospital in Chicago, performed the world's first successful open heart surgery without using anesthesia by removing a knife from the heart of a bar-fight stabbing victim. He sutured a wound to the pericardium (the fluid sac surrounding the myocardium), from which the patient recovered and lived for several years afterward. Dr. Williams was the only African-American in a group of 100 charter members of the American College of Surgeons in 1913. What was the decade in which this open-heart surgey took place? |
| On 9 Jul 1957 an announcement was made of the discovery of an artificial element, and its name was proposed, for an isotope believed found with a half-life of 10 minutes at 8.5 MeV. Later tests showed that no isotopes of the element with that atomic number had such a half-life. The element was truly discovered in Apr 1958. However, IUPAC accepted the name given to the prematurely discovered element. What is the name of this element? |
| Answers |
| When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the July 9 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for July 8: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin; Coca-Cola; leadership to build the atomic-powered submarine, USS Nautilus; Christiaan Huygens; the decade including the year 1800; sundae. |
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