Today in History – December 26, 1982 – TIME’s Person of the Year is a computer. History has always pondered whether the future was propelled by the movement of the masses, the fine control of the elite, or the inevitable flow of society. However, before now no one ever questioned whether history was centered around [...]

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Today in History – December 25, 1642 – Isaac Newton‘s birth. Also on this date in 1741 astronomer Anders Celsius introduces the temperature scale that bears his name. For more information, see the Engineering Pathway‘s resources on Newton and engineering mechanics or the Celsius scale and temperature measurement. For curricular resources, visit the Engineering Mechanics [...]

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Today in History – December 24, 1979 – Launch of the Ariane rocket. In the 1970s, in the middle of the Cold War, the state of European aeronautics was in disarray. After Europa, Europe’s latest rocket, failed 11 times, many were skeptical that Europe could match the power that Russia and the USA had over [...]

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Today in History – December 23, 1867 – Marks the day of the birth of the first millionaires, Sarah Breedlove known to us as Madame CJ Walker. Born 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, her parents Owen and Minera Breedlove were former slaves to “Robert W. Burney’s Madison Parish farm which was a battle-staging area during the [...]

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Today in History – December 23, 1867 – Birth of first self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove for hair straightner invention, products and services) . Born in poverty in 1867 (left graphic is a sketch of her birth house) on the shores of the Mississippi River in northeast Louisiana, her parents, recenlty released slaves, died while she [...]

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