Attempting One Thing; Developing Another
Sometimes while trying to do one thing, another completely different item will turn up. Here are a few accidental discoveries that many of us would not want to do without. One day in the 1940’s while George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, was walking his dog he noticed that his pants got covered with cockleburs. [...]
A Third Friday the 13th
2009 is one of those rare years when there are three months that have a Friday the 13th. The first was February followed a month later in March. The third is today. Instead of repeating the Friday the 13th post from earlier in the year, just take a look at it: Friday the 13th
Social Networks
The biggest craze today seem to be online social networks. A few years ago it was MySpace, then Face Book and now we are all in a Twitter. Social Networks are not new and in the future they will still be here, only in ways that some high school teen developer is only now imagining. [...]
Or Did They?
It seemed to be an incredible accomplishment. Man not only flew to the Moon, but they walked upon it before the end of the decade of the 1960s, just as ordered by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. But it didn’t take long before there were those who not only said that reaching the moon [...]
J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek was born on May 1, 1910 in Chicago, Ill. He died on April 27, 1986 at the age of 75 from a malignant brain tumor at Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. Hynek was classified as an expert in astrophysics. He received a B.S. from the University of Chicago received in 1931 and [...]
Friday the 13th
A Friday that occurs on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in many cultures around the globe. Any month that begins on a Sunday will contain a Friday the 13th. Every year has at least one and some may have as many as three Fridays the [...]
A Ball in Space
It was on October 4, 1957 that the Soviet Union took the first step in what has been called the US-USSR Space Race. It was on that date that they put Sputnik I into Earth’s orbit. The first artificial satellite was 58 cm or 22.3 inches in diameter. This is just a little over twice [...]
Kodak – Eastman Picks a Name
What’s in a name? For George Eastman the name is Kodak. It was on September 4, 1888 that he patented the name Kodak. When applying to the British Patent Office his comments were; “This is not a foreign name or word; it was constructed by me to serve a definite purpose. It has the following [...]
The Great Hurricane of 1933
1933 had a very active summer for hurricanes. By mid-August there had already been 7 recorded storms with one of them turning into a hurricane. Beginning on August 17th a storm was detected northeast of the Leeward Islands. When the center of the storm made landfall of the United States over Norfolk, Virginia as a [...]
NASA is 50 in 2008 Too
Along with people such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Prince, NASA is also celebrating it’s 50 years as an agency. On July 29, 1958, Congress created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) when President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act. NASA officially began operations on October 1, 1958, [...]
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