Let’s get acquitted with the Science Happenings in the month of August…
August 1 – 1941:
The first Jeep rolled off the assembly line, and Willy’s Truck Company was the first company to create a jeep.
August 2 – 1932:
The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson
August 3 – 1958:
The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap
August 6 – 1945:
An American B-29 warplane, dropped atomic bomb named as ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
August 7- 1944:
The world’s first program-controlled calculator, popularly called the Harvard Mark I, was inaugurated. The machine was built by Harvard researcher Howard Aiken and supported by IBM.
August 8 – 1911: T
he millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire
August 9 – 1898:
Rudolf Diesel of France was granted patent Number 608,845 for an “internal combustion engine” known as the Diesel engine.
August 10 – 1990:
The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
August 11 – 1942:
Hedy Markey received a patent for a secret communication system.
August 12 – 1851:
Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
August 13 – 1913:
Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley
August 14 – 1984:
IBM released MS-DOS version 3.0. IBM first approached Bill Gates and Microsoft to discuss the state of home computers in 1980.
August 15 – 1977:
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space.
August 16 – 1989:
A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects microchips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock market.
August 17 – 1970:
Venera Program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
August 19 – 1837:
Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore had developed Daguerreotype, which was first photographic process. The patent of Daguerreotype was purchased by the French government.
August 20 – 1858:
Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory
August 21 – 1888:
The first practical adding & listing machine (calculator) was patented by William Burroughs.
August 22 – 1952:
The Television Show “Adventures of Superman” was copyright registered.
August 23 – 1966:
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
August 24 – 2006:
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is considered a dwarf planet.
August 28 – 1859:
A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan
August 31 – 1897:
Thomas Edison patented a kinetographic camera.
-Team ScienceNow
