1938: Inventor Chester Carlson produces the first electrophotographic image. It’s the precursor of the Xerox machine.
Carlson was an engineer who couldn’t get a job in his field during the Great Depression, so he took work in the patent department of battery-manufacturer P.R. Mallory. A bottleneck in the work was making copies of patent documents: […]
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Marie Osmond is 49.
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1945 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1951 - Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball
1951 - Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball’s National League
1952 - 2 trains collide with a derailed commuter train, kills 112 (England)
1955 - Worlds most powerful aircraft carrier, Saratoga (US), launched
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