Born: 1917Birthplace: New York City Bifurcated vaccination needle—Until 1967 smallpox killed at least 2 million people annually. In 1980 the World Health Organization declared that smallpox had…
Born: 1866Birthplace: East Bolton, Quebec, Canada Apparatus for signaling by electromagnetic waves—Canadian Reginald Fessenden made history in 1906 when he broadcast the world's first radio…
Born: 1904 Link Trainer/Simulator. While working in his father's piano and organ factory, Link was inspired to use organ parts and compressed air to build the first flight simulator. During World…
book publisherBorn: 9/12/1892Birthplace: New York City A premier book publisher who paid as much attention to the typestyle and materials of the books he published as to the quality of the…
FRANKS, Robert Douglas, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., September 21, 1951; attended public schools; B.A., DePauw University, 1973; J.D., Southern…
Senate Years of Service: 1930-1932Party: DemocratMORRISON, Cameron A., a Senator and a Representative from North Carolina; born near Rockingham, Richmond County, N.C., October 5, 1869;…
(Encyclopedia) Applegarth, Robert, 1834–1924, English trade union leader, a carpenter by trade. A charter member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, he became in 1862 its general…
(Encyclopedia) Fergusson, Robert, 1750–74, Scottish poet, b. Edinburgh. He was a precursor of Robert Burns, who proclaimed his debt to Fergusson's Poems (1773). After careers in the clergy and in…
Senate Years of Service: 1946-1947Party: RepublicanTAFT, Kingsley Arter, a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 19, 1903; attended the public schools of Cleveland…
DOUGLAS, Emily Taft, (wife of Paul H. Douglas), a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill., April 10, 1899; Ph.B., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1919; actor; author; elected…
