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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 18 | |
| 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 | |
| "I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together. - Jacob Bronowski (born 18 Jan 1908) "He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent parts, and philosophize about them; he must show how these parts originated, and how they came to be in that relation in which they stand to each other. But he who learns to know a thing not only from its phenomena, but also its reasons and causes; and who, therefore, not by the phenomena merely, but by these also, is compelled to say: 'The thing must be so, and it cannot be otherwise; it is necessarily of such a character; it must have such qualities; it is impossible for it to possess others' - understands the thing not only historically but truly philosophically, and he has a philosophic knowledge of it. Our own Theory of Generation is to be such a philosphic comprehension of an organic body, a very different one from one merely historical. - Caspar Friedrich Wolff, German physiologist, known as the "founder of modern embryology" (born 18 Jan 1734) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| A physicist and engineer, born 18 Jan 1933, invented a Noise Reduction System known by his name. He is famous for innovations for improving recording sound quality used on high-quality cassettes in car stereos and digital surround sound in movie theaters. As a high school student he went to work part time for Ampex Corporation. While still in college, he joined the small team of Ampex engineers dedicated to inventing the world's first practical video tape recorder. Can you name this scientist? | |
| Joseph Farwell Glidden, born 18 Jan 1813, was an Illinois farmer when he developed the design of a product that would transform the West. It opened the plains to large-scale farming, bringing the era of the cowboy and the round-up to an end. What was this product? | |
| Deaths | |
| Herman Snellen (1834-1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist whose Snellen Chart imprinted with lines of black letters is used for testing visual acuity. This chart soon gained acceptance in all civilized countries. What is the Snellen fraction? | |
| Events | |
| On 18 Jan of a certain year, the first live giant panda outside China was brought, by clothing designer Ruth Harkness, to the U.S. from China. Named Su-Lin, the male bear cub arrived in San Francisco, California. In which decade did this panda first come to the U.S.? | |
| 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 January 18 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. | |
| Fast answers for the previous newsletter for January 17: bifocal eyeglasses; the planet Pluto; dogs; the decade including the year 1949; San Francisco, California, U.S.A. | |
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