This Day in History July 13

blue water massey

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July 13

1568 Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to bottle beer
1787 The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states
1832 Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1836 US patent #1 (after 9,957 unnumbered patents), for locomotive wheels
1898 Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio

Birthdays:

1942 Harrison Ford, American actor and producer

Thought for the day:

" Learning music by reading about it, Is like making love by mail. "
 
IIRC Nikola Tesla had a radio controlled mine he made for the Spanish American war effort in 1898. When Marconi announced his radio Tesla said it's ok he is using 16 of my patents.
 

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