On this day in history.

[J. A.]

November 8, 1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray. (In German we call them "Röntgenstrahlen".)




Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen

 

[scifan57]

November 11, 1918; at 5 a.m. In a railroad car in Compiégne, France, Germany signed an armistice agreement which brought an end to World War I at 11 a.m. That morning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NYTimes-Page1-11-11-1918.jpg

 

[J. A.]

This was taking place in my country on November 11:

308: At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.

2000: Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.

 

[zstairlessone]

In 1930 Albert (yes the same Albert) and Leó Szilárd patented a refrigerator (this design was to become known as the Einstein refrigerator) that had no moving parts. They invented it after hearing of a family that was poisoned by a failed seal. The refrigerators of the day used a toxic gas and seal failure was something that occurred on a routine basis.

The patent was bought by Electrolux (still selling refrigerators) but they didn't make much off the patent as newer and less toxic chemicals were invented and used, making refrigerators much safer using the older design.

Today companies are starting to look at similar designs to the Einstein refrigerator as environmentally friendly units to use where electricity is not available.

Talk about a man ahead of his time (in many more ways than one).

 

[J. A.]

November 12, 1918: Austria becomes a republic.

 

[zstairlessone]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine

Alan Turing (Great Britain) published a paper entitled “On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem” that would form the basic theory of computability for several decades.

 

[J. A.]

Wow! A German word (Entscheidungsproblem) in a British paper!

 

[zstairlessone]

Wow! A German word (Entscheidungsproblem) in a British paper!

Ah, I did not know it was one word, those darn Brits ....

 

[squib]

Last night I was thinking about the telegraph and thought to myself , there were just a dit and a dash, so it was really like a computer with the one and the zero. So really telegrams were the first emails!


Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa

 

[J. A.]

November 13, 1922: Oskar Werner, Austrian actor, is born.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Werner

 

[The OB]

November 13, 1922: Oskar Werner, Austrian actor, is born.


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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Werner

I thought he was excellent in the film "the Spy Who Came In From The Cold" based on the book by John LeCarre, one of my favourite authors. I thought Werner was much younger than the 91 he is today from what I remember of his films. I googled to check your post as I did not think that was right. You were right of course! Now I feel very old lol.
Andrew


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[scifan57]

I thought he was excellent in the film "the Spy Who Came In From The Cold" based on the book by John LeCarre, one of my favourite authors. I thought Werner was much younger than the 91 he is today from what I remember of his films. I googled to check your post as I did not think that was right. You were right of course! Now I feel very old lol. Andrew Sent from Oz using Tapatalk

BTW, Oskar Werner died on October 23, 1984. I also liked him as the fireman in Fahrenheit 451.

 

[J. A.]

I thought he was excellent in the film "the Spy Who Came In From The Cold" based on the book by John LeCarre, one of my favourite authors. I thought Werner was much younger than the 91 he is today from what I remember of his films. I googled to check your post as I did not think that was right. You were right of course! Now I feel very old lol. Andrew Sent from Oz using Tapatalk

I had to read the book at school. (I was a teenager back then.) It was excellent. I can't remember seeing the movie with Oskar Werner, although I'm almost certain that I saw "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold". Should I feel old now, as well?

 

[squib]

No, Johanna, don't feel OLD, feel young! We read the book in school and I am not sure you would have enjoyed his role in the movie! Oh, that was a heart wrenching book!. Did you also have to read the mutants? I am not even sure if that was the name of the book. I will have to ask my school chum. She wrote my paper on it for me! It might have been called the "chrysalis "? I will get back to you on that!


Peace begins with a smile.
M Teresa

 

[J. A.]

No, ..., don't feel OLD, feel young! ...
Peace begins with a smile. M Teresa

You could tell that to Andrew as well.