2. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Child car seat patent
In 1985, Karl Hassel of Plain City,
Ohio was awarded a patent for his
built-in child's car seat.
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3. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
DNA fingerprinting
In 1984, DNA fingerprinting was discovered in
Leicester, England, by Alec Jeffreys as X-ray films
of his tests first revealed the possibility. As he
studied the image, at first what he saw seemed
just a complicated mess.
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4. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Indian Mound Builders
In 1925, the Royal tomb of the
Hopewell Indian Mound Builders
was unearthed, outside the village
of Bainbridge, near Chillicothe,
Ohio. Four adult and two infant
skeletons were found, believed to
be a royal family of the ancient
tribe.
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5. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Lincoln Highway
promoted
In 1912, to promote his idea for the
Lincoln Highway, Carl Fisher met
with a group of auto industry leaders
for a dinner at Das Deutsche Haus, in
Indianapolis, Indiana. (That
community center is now named the
Athenæum.)
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6. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Heart muscle surgery
In 1896, the first successful surgery on
heart muscle was performed on 10 Sep
1896, by Ludwig Rehn in Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, who sutured a
myocardial laceration - a 1.5-cm wound
of the right ventricle - of a 22-yr-old man
stabbed in a drunken brawl.
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7. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Sewing machine
In 1846, Elias Howe of Spencer,
Massachusetts, received a patent
for his hand-cranked sewing
machine. Isaac Singer patented one
five years later.
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8. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Champlain Canal
opened
In 1823, The Champlain Canal
was opened in New York state, a 60-
mile canal that connects the south
end of Lake Champlain to the
Hudson River in New York.
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9. SCIENTIFIC EVENT ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Double-decker
steamboat
In 1815, the keel was laid for the
first double decker steamboat,
the Washington, in Wheeling,
Virginia, built for Capt. Henry
Miller Shreve.
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10. SCIENTIST BORN ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Stephen Jay Gould
Maxie Anderson
Thomas D. Brock
Waldo Semon
Melville J. Herskovits
Arthur Holly Compton
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Lilian Gibbs
Stephen Jay
Gould
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11. SCIENTIST BORN ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
J. Norman Collie
James Keeler
Robert Koldewey
Charles Sanders Peirce
Carl Gustaf Mosander
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
John Kidd
John Needham
Thomas Sydenham
J. Norman
Collie
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12. SCIENTIST DIED ON 10TH SEPTEMBER
Sir Hermann Bondi
Ernest Julius Öpik
Jerome C. Hunsaker
Felix Bloch
Sir George Paget Thomson
Emil J. Gumbel
Robert Julius Trumpler
Benjamin Minge Duggar
Thomas Nuttall
George Bentham
Émilie du Châtelet
Felix Bloch
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