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| NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 25 | |
| 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. | |
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| Quotations for Today | |
| "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering (died 25 Nov 1958). Many more Kettering quotations here. "The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell." - Andrew Carnegie (born 24 Nov 1835) "The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated." - Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon and pioneer in neurosurgery (died 25 Nov 1939) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Andrew Carnegie, born 25 Nov 1835 was a Scottish-born American industrialist who made a fortune from that career, then spent the later years of his life devoted to philanthropy. He was a benefactor of over 1700 libraries. He made his fortune in what industry? | |
| Deaths | |
| Kenneth C. Brugger (1918-1998) was an American amateur naturalist who discovered the long-sought winter home of a migrating butterflies which travelled from the U.S. to their butterfly refuge within the territory of only 200 square meters in central Mexico. He traced the migration of which butterfly? | |
| Events | |
| On 25 Nov of a certain year, cable television was invented by Ed Parsons. On Thanksgiving Day the Parsonses watched KRSC's inaugural broadcast, although the TV station was 150 miles away in Seattle. He had found he could pick up a usable signal on the roof of the John Jacob Astor Hotel, where he lived. He set up an antenna there and strung a cable from it to his living room. When Parsons installed a set in the hotel lobby, it attracted so many gawkers that guests could not reach the registration desk. Then he put a set in a store window across the street and brought the signal to it with coaxial cable - the first recorded use of coaxial to carry television. In which decade was this first use of cable television? | |
| On 25 Nov 1867, Alfred Nobel patented the invention that made his fortune. What was this invention? | |
| 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 November 25 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for November 24: W and Z particles; Maxim machine gun; the decade containing the year 1874; Wilbur and Orville; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. | |
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