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Hermann Oberth, the German father of rocketry, has a mixed legacy. On the one hand, he developed the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany during World II. On the other hand, his ideas, rejected as implausible when he submitted them as part of his doctoral thesis, paved the way for the development of rocketry, and he later helped launch the United States into space. Source: https://www.space.com/20063-hermann-oberth.html

James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a football ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. However, another decade passed before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored. US Patent #1,718,305 was granted to G L Pierce on June 25, 1929 for the "basketball" used in the game.   Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/patents-behind-basketball-180971830/ https://www.robinage.com/sports/know-more-basketball.htm

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours  known as  Irénée du Pont , or  E.I. du Pont , was a  French -born  American   chemist  and industrialist who emmigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the  gunpowder  manufacturing  business , E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. His descendants, the centuries Du Pont family, were one of America's richest and most prominent families in the nineteenth and twentieth. Source: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Eleuthere_Irenee_du_Pont

On June 24 of the year 1873, U.S. Patent No.: 140,245 issued to Samuel L. Clemens for an "Improvement in Scrap-Books". Clemens is better known by his pseudonym, "Mark Twain", which was a meausure of water depth used by steamboat pilots on the Mississippi River to indicate two fathoms. In addition to being a well-known writer, humorist, publisher, and lecturer, Twain was an inventor who held three patents. The '245 patent was his second and, by far, his most successful patent.  Source: http://www.patentlyinteresting.com/june-24.html

Alan Turing - Father of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician who took a leading role in breaking Nazi ciphers during WWII. In his seminal 1936 paper, he proved that there cannot exist any universal algorithmic method of determining truth in mathematics, and that mathematics will always contain undecidable propositions. His work is widely acknowledged as foundational research of computer science and artificial intelligence.  Early Life English scientist Alan Turing was born Alan Mathison Turing on June 23, 1912, in Maida Vale, London, England. At a young age, he displayed signs of high intelligence, which some of his teachers recognized, but did not necessarily respect. When Turing attended the well-known independent Sherborne School at the age of 13, he became particularly interested in math and science. After Sherborne, Turing enrolled at King's College (University of Cambridge) in Cambridge, England, studying th...

Dr. Howard T. Engstrom Birthday of Dr. Howard T. Engstrom – Promoter of Digital Computer American computer designer who  promoted  the first commercially available digital computer, the Univac. As a Yale professor he had written a paper on the mathematical basis for cryptanalysis techniques. During WW II he was called to the Navy and placed in command of the OP-20-G automated machines "Research Section" for message decryption. After the war, he was a  co-founder  of Engineering Research Associates, a private company to work on electronic digital circuit technology for the Navy on a contract basis, with former Navy researchers. ERA  delivered  its first Atlas computer to the National Security Agency in Dec 1950. As vice president for research, Engstrom took the initiative to make a commercial version, renamed Univac. Source:  https://todayinsci.com/6/6_23.htm

In the his tory of Devnagari Typography, the contribution in the area of ‘Typographic Design’, made by Shri Kamal Shedge is simply unparallel. In his long professional span of over three and half decades, (starting from early 60s), Shri Shedge has made people look at the letters as a ‘beautiful’ experience. Shedge, who was not a student of an art school, started his career as an artist with ‘Maharashtra Times’, which was started around that time, and later became one of the leading daily in Marathi; of Times group. Though he worked mainly with ‘Maharashtra Times’ he lent his golden touch to other publications like ‘Madhuri’ of the Times group. Sources: http://aksharaya.org/event/aksharsanvad-an-interview-with-kamal-shedge/ http://wetheartist.blogspot.com/2009/07/kamal-shedge-name-i-only-knew-by-his.html Image Source:  https://www.discogs.com/artist/2086896-Kamal-Shedge Read more at: https://poojasaxena.wordpress.com/…/…/kamal-shedges-letters/ http://wetheartist.blogspo...