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famous and not-so-famous historical innovations that
occurred in
Science and Technology during this month. |
June |
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1920-Patent #
1,342,045 issued to
Ernest A. Hamwi for a
ice cream cone making machine |
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1907-Edwin J. Shoemaker inventor of the La-Z
-Boy chair born in Monroe, Michigan |
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1969-New York Rangers trademark registered |
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1963-Patent #3,091,888 granted to
six-year-old Robert W. Patch for a "toy truck"
1968-Patent #3,387,286 issued to Robert
Dennard for dynamic random access memory DRAM |
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1900-Dennis Gabor
inventor of holography born |
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1850-Ferdinand Braun
wirless telegraphy pioneer born |
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1954-Alan M. Turing
computer pioneer died |
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1867-Frank
Lloyd Wright, famous architect, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
1955-Tim Berners-Lee inventor
of the World Wide Web born in London, England
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1953-Patent #2,641,545 granted to John H.
Kraft for the "manufacture of soft surface cured cheese" |
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1980- Patent No. 4,207,087 issued to Ralph
Baer and Howard Morrison for SIMON®
game |
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1842-Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde
inventor of the refrigerator born in Berndorf, Germany |
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1928-Good and Plenty trademark registered
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1944-Patent #2,351,004 is obtained by Marvin
Camras for the magnetic tape recorder |
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1912-E. Cuyler Hammond Scientist was the
first to link smoking with lung cancer while research director of
the American Cancer Society |
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1844-Patent issued to Charles Goodyear for a
process for "vulcanizing" rubber |
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1806-Edward Davy early telegraphy pioneer
born |
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1870-George Cormack co-inventor of Wheaties
cereal born |
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1983- Sally K. Ride, mission specialist,
became America's first woman in space. |
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1623-Blaise Pascal is
born in Clermont-Ferrand, France
1906-Hershey® trademark # 0054041
(US) registered |
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1861-Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered essential nutrient factors, now known as vitamins born |
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1834-Patent X8277 issued to Cyrus Hall
McCormick for the Mechanical Reaper |
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1633-Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth
orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) |
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1868-Patent # 79,265 issued to Christopher
Latham Sholes for a typewriter
1912-Alan
Mathison Turing inventor of the Turing machine born in
London, England |
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1873-Mark Twain patents a scrapbook |
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I921-German chemist, Friedrich Karl Bergius
invented a way to convert coal dust and hydrogen directly into gasoline
and lubricating oils without isolating intermediate products |
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1951-CANDY LAND trademark for children's
game registered |
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1967-K MART trademark registered |
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1974-Patent # 3,821,715 issued to Marcian
Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. for the microprocessor |
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1915-Juicy Fruit chewing gum trademark
registered |
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1953-The first laminated
fiberglass-body sport car to be produced in the U.S. was the Chevrolet
Corvette made at a General Motors factory in Flint, Michigan |
DID YOU KNOW?
- June is the sixth month of the year in the
Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days.
- Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in
June.
- Flag Day in the United States (June 14)
- National Safety Month in the United States
- June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal
equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa.
- June's birthstone is the pearl, Alexandrite, or
moonstone.
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