History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week -
compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW
Monday, 20 February, 2012
1616 Cardinal Bellarmine warned Galileo not to hold, teach, or defend the Copernican theory, that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
1630 Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina
1804 The first self-propelling steam engine or steam locomotive was tested at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks
1839 Mr. William Smith Otis, civil engineer of Philadelphia, Penn., was issued a U.S. patent for the steam shovel
1837 Thomas Davenport patented the first practical electrical motor
1893 Rudolf Diesel received a German patent for the diesel engine.
1962 John Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first U.S. manned orbital mission .
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Our thanks to John Alcorn, VK2JWA of the Summerland Amateur Radio Club for this weekly feature.
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