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| NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 5 | |
| 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 | |
| "There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything." - George Washington Carver, American agricultural chemist (died 5 Jan 1943) "(The screw machine) was on the principle of the guage or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection of which consists in that most faithful agent gravity, making the joint, and that almighty perfect number three, which is in harmony itself. I was young when I learned that principle. I had never seen my grandmother putting a chip under a three-legged milking-stool; but she always had to put a chip under a four-legged table, to keep it steady. I cut screws of all dimensions by this machine, and did them perfectly." - David Wilkinson, American inventor of a machine for cutting screw threads (born 5 Jan 1771) Recalling his 1932 discovery of heavy water, containing deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, "I thought it might have a practical use in something like neon signs." - Harold C. Urey, American Nobel prize-winning scientist (died 5 Jan 1981) | |
| QUIZ | |
| Births | |
| Aaron "Bunny" Lapin, born 5 Jan 1914, was the inventor who put whipped cream in a spray can and called it Reddi-Wip, a dessert topping. In 1998, Time magazine listed Reddi-wip as one of the century's 100 great things for consumers, along with the pop-top can and Spam. In what decade was Reddi-Wip invented? | |
| The inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor was born 5 Jan 1855. By 1895, he produced a crude version of a disposable razor blade. On 2 Dec 1901 he patented his idea and founded his Safety Razor Company in Boston, Mass., to make his razor and blades. Can you name this inventor? | |
| Deaths | |
| George Washington Carver (1861-1943) was an American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter who helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. Carver demonstrated to farmers how fertility could be restored to their land. In all he is reported to have developed over 300 new products from one of the products he recommended the farmers should plant, and over 100 products from sweet potatoes. Which crop did he convert into 300 products? | |
| Events | |
| On 5 Jan of a certain year, an Austrian newspaper, Wiener Presse, published the first public account of a discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, the form of radiation that became known as X-rays. In what decade was this news published? | |
| On 5 Jan 1933, work began on a famous suspension bridge, the first in the U.S. to have piers built in open ocean. It was also first to span the outer mouth of a major ocean harbour. What is the name of this bridge? | |
| 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 5 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 4: "night writing" to silently pass instructions in war trenches; The Declaration of Independence; Harold Edgerton; Austrian; Sputnik I. | |
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