This day in history
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014
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... that the two basic
transformer
(pictured)
constructions in common use today are based on designs described in patent applications from 1885?
... that members of the fossil insect family
Armaniidae
have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
... that
The Nautical Magazine
cited
John McFarlane Gray
as making "the first example of direct calculation of gyroscopic effect as an engineering quality"?
... that
Ohio State Route 212
has followed the same route since 1939?
... that the
Warrington
architect
William Owen
designed the first 28 houses in the
model village
of
Port Sunlight
?
... that the
Byzantine
Cistern of Aetius
in
Constantinople
, once containing 250–300 million liters of water, is now a
football
stadium in
Istanbul
?
... that because the children's writer
Lucy Lyttelton Cameron
was so delicate, she did not have to wear a backboard as a child like
her sister
did?
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