 | TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 15 OCTOBER |
| Feature for Today |
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| Quotations for Today | |
 | "My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity, and am delighted by the unexpected. ... Intellectually, I march to the beat of my own drum and have little interest in competing in 'races'. There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems and too little time." - Peter C. Doherty, Australian Nobel prize-winning immunologist and pathologist (born 15 Oct 1940)  |
 | "Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." (1971) - C.P. Snow, British physicist and author (born 15 Oct 1905) |
 | "I can find a hundred men to tell me an idea won't work. What I want are men who will make it work." - Herbert H. Dow (died 15 Oct 1930) |
| QUIZ | |
| 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. | |
| Births | |
 |  An Italian physicist, born 15 Oct 1608, invented the barometer. The barometer experiment using "quicksilver" filling a tube then inverted into a dish of mercury, carried out in Spring 1644, made his name famous. Can you name this scientist? |
| Deaths | |
| |  Herbert Henry Dow (1866-1930) was a pioneer in U.S. chemical industry who founded the Dow Chemical Company. As a young man Dow entered the rudimentary chemical industry of the 1890s by inventing an entirely new method of extracting an element from the prehistoric brine trapped underground at Midland, Mich.What was this element? |
| Events | |
 |  On 15 Oct of a certain year, killer bees reached the city of Hidalgo at the southern tip of Texas, the first U.S. state to be invaded. Because of their more intense defensive swarming behavior, such non-native bees earned the name "killer bee" in the media. Their original source was from cross-breeding with tropical African bees imported into Brazil for experimental work.In what decade was this killer bee invasion detected? |
 | On 15 Oct 1878, Thomas Edison established the Edison Electric Light Company in N.Y. City. He patented his electricity distribution system in 1880. The first investor-owned electric utility, Pearl Street Station, New York City, (1882) provided service for the 400 lamps of 85 customers. This company and its technological heritage became a part of a now well-known U.S. company in 1892.Can you name this present company? |
| 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 October 15 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. Fast answers for the previous newsletter for October 14: Japan; helium; the decade containing the year 1960; Chuck Yeager. |
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