On 16 Jun 1893, Cracker Jack was invented by R.W. Rueckheim, a unique popcorn, peanuts, and molasses confection which he introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's First World Fair.
Today's feature is a little different: it has a recipe for making a cracker jack type candy at home from your own popped corn (1901) and a short description from 1910 of how it was produced at the factory. You can also look at a vintage advertisement for Cracker Jack from 1919.
On 16 Jun 1930, Elmer Sperry died, one of America’s most significant electrical engineers. Today's book pick is: Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology), by Thomas Parke Hughes, who writes a superb biography of this major American inventor. Sperry obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime and contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processes. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life. Sperry was an important contributor in the history of technology, and this book is almost required reading for background of the influences in that field reaching from the 50s to the late 80s.
It is available from Amazon, typically about New from $21.69. Used from $13.36. (As of earlier time of writing - subject to change.)
Mit dem Schwerte der Wissenschaft, mit dem Panzer der Praxis, so wird Deutsche Bier die Welt erringen. With the sword of Science and the armour of Practice, German beer will encircle the world. | |
I was just so interested in what I was doing I could hardly wait to get up in the morning and get at it. One of my friends, a geneticist, said I was a child, because only children can't wait to get up in the morning to get at what they want to do. | |
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors. |
Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. | |
Births | |
| Barbara McClintock, born 16 Jun 1902, was an American scientist whose work on the cytogenetics of maize led her to theorize that genes are transposable—they can move around—on and between chromosomes. McClintock drew this inference by observing changing patterns of coloration in maize kernels over generations of controlled crosses. For her discovery, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983. What was notable about this woman's award of the Nobel Prize? |
| Georg Wittig, born 16 Jun 1897, was a German chemist who discovered how a family of organic compounds called ylides could form the basis of the Wittig reaction. Because of the Wittig reaction, complex compounds can now routinely be synthesized, such as vitamin A, vitamin D derivatives, steroids, and biological pesticides. What is the result of a Wittig reaction? |
Deaths | |
| A German-born American engineer (1912-1977) played a prominent role in all aspects of rocketry and space exploration, first in Germany and, after World War II, in the United States. Can you name this scientist? |
| Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878) was an American physician who was the first in the U.S. to use a certain compound as an anesthetic in surgery. On 30 Mar 1842, practicing in rural Georgia, he first used this anesthetic while he removed a tumour from a patient’s neck. What compound did he use as an anesthetic? |
Events | |
| On a certain 16 Jun, after some false starts, incorporation papers were signed by ten investors. Henry Ford was named in the paperwork as Vice President of the Ford Motor Company. He contributed the benefits of his patents, knowledge and engine. In what decade was the Ford Motor Company incorporated? |
| On 16 Jun 1903, pharmacist Caleb D. Bradham’s soft drink trademark was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. Pharmacies at the time were favorite gathering places. He had created this soft drink in the summer of 1898, to increase business at his store’s soda fountain. He mixed carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, oils, pepsin, and kola nut extract. Customers at in his pharmacy in New Bern, N.C., liked the beverage and called it Brad’s Drink. What is the trademark by which the drink is now known? |
Fast answers for the previous newsletter for June 15: Atlantic Ocean • skyscraper • Joseph Dixon • Charles Goodyear • the decade including the year 1752 • celluloid.
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