This Month That Year : February
The major Scientific Achievements in the Month of February are as follows…
1974 – Venus probe
The U.S. space probe Mariner 10 returned the first close-up photos of the cloud structure of Venus at the closest range of 5768-km. It was also the first time a spacecraft used a gravity assist from one
planet to help it reach another planet, helping Mariner 10 reach Mercury in Mar 1974.
1971 – Third U.S. manned moon landing
Apollo 14, the third US manned Moon expedition, landed with two astronauts in the lunar highlands
near the crater Fra Mauro. Commander Alan B. Shepard and Lunar Module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell
became the fifth and sixth men to walk on the Moon.
1962 – Conjunction of the planets
The Sun, the Moon, and the five naked-eye visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn – were in conjunction. Though not in a straight line along their orbital paths, as viewed in the sky, they were within 16 degrees of each other.
1956 – First concrete TV tower
The world’s first concrete television tower on the Hoher Bopser hill was inaugurated in Stuttgart,
Germany. Instead of a steel girder transmitter mast, design engineers Fritz Leonhardt, Erwin Heinle and Rolf Gutbrod originated a 217-m steel-topped concrete needle to broadcast TV and FM radio.
1918 – Edison car starter patent
Thomas A. Edison was issued a U.S. patent for Starting and Current-Supplying System for
Automobiles; (No. 1,255,517).
1850 – Calculator patent
The first U.S. patent for push-key operation for an adding machine was patented by Dubois D.
Parmelee of New Paltz, N.Y. (No. 7,074). His Calculating Machine; patent diagram showed 9 keys.
-Team ScienceNow
