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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 17 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on August 17. 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. |
| Births |
| Hazel Bishop, born 17 Aug 1906, was a chemist and cosmetic executive who made an indelible mark on the cosmetics industry by inventing a new lipstick. In 1949, after a long series of home experiments, in a kitchen fitted out as a laboratory, she perfected her new lipstick, and began its manufacture and marketing the following year. What was new about this lipstick? |
| Thomas Hodgkin, born 17 Aug 1798, was an English physician who early described (1832) the disease that bears his name. He was the most prominent British pathologist of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He devoted much of his life to philanthropic causes such as the relief of suffering in under-developed countries and the freeing of slaves. What is affected in Hodkin's Disease? |
| Deaths |
| Robert Rowe Gilruth (1913-2000) was an American aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He developed the X-1 plane. Gilruth directed Project Mercury, the initial program for achieving manned space flight. Under his leadership, the first American astronaut orbited the Earth only a little over 3 years after NASA was created. What was the X-1 plane first to accomplish? |
| Events |
| On 17 Aug of a certain year, the first pedestrian to be knocked down and killed by a motor vehicle in Britain was Mrs Bridget Driscoll of Croydon, Surrey, who was hit by a car travelling at 4 mph. In what decade did this accident happen? |
| On 17 Aug 1877, Asaph Hall discovered one of Mars' moons. Can you name this moon? |
| 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 August 17 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for August 16: the first colour photographic plate; to establish a basis for the unit of length in the metric system; helium; spectrum analysis; 16.04 miles; Siam. |
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