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April 12, 2007
Today in History: April 12th
From Those Were the Days - Today in History:
1799 - Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine -- a “machine for making combs.”
Read more about inventions:
Men, machines, and modern times [by] Elting E. Morison.
T14 .M59
Asimov’s chronology of science and discovery / Isaac Asimov
Q125 .A7651989
1955 - The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was termed “safe, effective and potent” by the University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center.
Read more about Jonas Salk:
Heroes for our times. Edited for the Overseas Press Club of America by Will Yolen and Kenneth Seeman Giniger.
CT105 .H48
Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio / Jeffrey Kluger
QR31.S25 K582004
1984 - Challenger astronauts made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning a healthy Solar Max satellite to space. The orbiting sun watcher had been circling the Earth for three years with all circuits dead before repairs were made.
Read more about astronauts:
Astronaut fact book [electronic resource]
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS75662
Glenn : the astronaut who would be President / Frank Van Riper
E748.G55 V36X1983
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Posted by d-nadler at April 12, 2007 11:19 AM