Today in History – May 17, 1954 – Official groundbreaking of the CERN laboratory occurred in Geneva. A small number of scientists first envisioned CERN vision as an opportunity to bring nations together through science and build a world-class laboratory for nuclear and particle physics in Europe. CERN’s founding convention emphasized that that it should [...]
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Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: Groundbreaking of the CERN laboratory
May 17th, 2013 · Add a Comment
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Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: Scanning Electron Microscope
April 20th, 2013 · Add a Comment
Today in History – April 20, 1940 – RCA Demonstrates Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The history of the SEM begins in 1928 and RCA’s demonstration in 1940. In 1965 the first SEM was marketed by the Cambridge Instrument Company. The provided link includes an article that details the history of the SEM from 1928 to [...]
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Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: High T-C Superconductivity in Ceramic
April 17th, 2013 · Add a Comment
Today in History - April 17, 1986- first publication of High T-C Superconductivity in Ceramic. A breakthrough discovery was made in the field of superconductivity. Alex Muller and Georg Bednorz, researchers at the IBM Research Laboratory in Ruschlikon, Switzerland, created a brittle ceramic compound that superconducted at the highest temperature then known: 30 K. What [...]
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Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: Hooke’s first publication
April 10th, 2013 · Add a Comment
Today in History – April 10, 1662 – Robert Hooke’s first publication – a pamphlet on capillary action, to the Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning. The Society had been constituted, to promote experimental philosophy, by at a meeting of a dozen scientists in Gresham College on 28 Nov 1660. The Society subsequently [...]
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Engineering Education “Today in History” Blog: The discovery of fullerenes is first published
November 14th, 2012 · Add a Comment
Today in History – November 14, 1985 – Fullerenes were first introduced in the journal Nature,. Earlier in September during 11 days of collaborative research, Robert F. Curl, Jr., Richard Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto discovered the first fullerene, C60, a spherical cluster of carbon atoms. The discovery was coined buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs after [...]
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