FOSS, Frank Herbert, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, September 20, 1865; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Kent Hill (Maine)…
Senate Years of Service: 1905-1924Party: RepublicanBRANDEGEE, Frank Bosworth, (son of Augustus Brandegee), a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in New London, Conn., July 8,…
bank robber, murdererBorn: 6/22/1903Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana Famous bank robber and cold-blooded killer who terrorized the Midwest during the early '30s, John Dillinger captured national…
Born: 1866Birthplace: Belleville, Ontario Process of extracting bromine—Dow invented an entirely new method of extracting bromine from underground brine. (1983)Died: 1930
Born: 1936 Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa. Recombinant DNA technology—Biochemists Boyer and Cohen combined their expertise in 1973 to create the first genetically engineered organism. They did this by…
Born: 8/10/1874Birthplace: West Branch, Iowa Herbert Clark Hoover was born at West Branch, Iowa, on Aug. 10, 1874, the first president to be born west of the Mississippi. A Stanford graduate, he…
Herbert Alexander Simonsocial scientist and economistBorn: 6/15/1916Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin polymath who won several awards, including the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics, for his theory on…
actorDied: June 12, 2007 (southern California) Best Known as: actor in "Mr. Wizard" television show Actor in "Mr. Wizard" from 1951-1964, who inspired and taught…
writerDied: Oct. 2, 2007 (Manhattan, New York) Best Known as: architecture critic for the New York Times Well-known architecture critic and writer for the New…
engineerDied: Nov. 21, 2007 (Miami, Florida) Best Known as: creator of five category hurricane scale An engineer who created the five category hurricane scale,…
