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| NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 29 |
| Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. 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 |
| "When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: 'Leave slide rules here.' If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, 'Boss, you can't do it.'" - Charles F. Kettering (born 29 Aug 1915) See dozens more quotations from Charles F. Kettering. Read scripts of his Radio Talks: Short Stories of Science and Invention. "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200" - Charles Darrow (born 29 Aug 1889) "Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist." - Lise Meitner (7 Nov 1878 - 27 Oct 1968) whose name, on 29 Aug 1982, was given to a new element. |
| QUIZ |
| Births |
| Charles F. Kettering, born 29 Aug 1915, was an American engineer whose inventions were instrumental in developing the modern automobile. What is his best-known invention for the automobile? |
| Deaths |
| Charles Darrow, born 29 Aug 1889, was an American inventor who designed a still well-known board game. His patent titled it a "Board Game Apparatus" and described it as "intended primarily to provide a game of barter." Can you name this game? |
| Events |
| On 29 Aug 1982 an atom of a new element was made. It has been given the proposed name of Meitnerium. Physicists at the Heavy Ion Research Laboratory, Darmstadt, West Germany made and identified element 109 by bombing a target of Bi-209 with accelerated nuclei of Fe-58. What is the proposed symbol for this element? |
| On 29 Aug in 1982, the 52,000-mile "Transglobe" expedition was completed, a first in the circumnavigation of the world. What was new about this circumnavigation journey? |
| On 29 Aug of a certain year, an astronaut in space held a conversation with an aquanaut in Sealab II below the Pacific Ocean In what decade did this take place? |
| 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 29 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 28: Computerized axial tomography. Bird study. Bowie = American; Edgeworth David = Australia; Haug = French; Smith = England and Wales. Floating bridge. Scientific American. Worcester Sauce. |
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