The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio announced, after more three years of engineering , the development of a tubeless tire. After successful testing, Goodrich
won patents for the new tires various features in 1952. Within three years ,the
tubeless tire came standard on most new automobiles.
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TUBELESS TIRE ON THIS DATE IN 1947
OSCAR SCHINDLER WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1908
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German
industrialist credited with saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during the
Holocaust of  World War ll by Nazi Germany. Oskar employed them in his
enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now
Poland and the Czech Republic. He is the subject of the novel Schindler’s Ark
(1982)Â by Australian author Thomas Keneally , and the 1993 Steven Spielberg
film Schindler’s List.
Oskar Schindler (center) with some of his Jewish workers at the Krakow
enamel factory around 1943
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Liam Neeson (top) and Ralph Fiennes star in the Steven Spielberg film
ELECTRIC COMPANY INCORPORATED ON THIS DATE IN 1889
in a merger of Edison’s three electric light manufacturing companies which wereÂ
Edison Lamp Company, Edison machine works and Bergmann & Company, withÂ
the patent-holding company, Edison Electric Light Company. As the result of
another merger on April 15, 1892, the General Electric Company was formed.Â
John Pierpont Morgan (above) arranged the 1892 merger of the electric companies.
APPLE COMPUTER BEGAN OPERATIONS ON THIS DATE IN 1976
Apple was established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California by Steve Jobs
(above), along with Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne (pictured below), to
sell the Apple l personal computer kit. They were hand-built by computer
engineer Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer
Club, a group of hobbyist in Silicon Valley. The Apple I went on sale in July
of 1976.
Note: The first Apple logo (shown on the above manual) featured Isaac
Newton sitting under an apple tree.
THE 45 RPM RECORD INTRODUCED ON THIS DATE IN 1949
David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, ordered his engineers in marketing and
research to bring into production the previously developed RCA Victor 45
RPM system (which had been kept a carefully guarded industrial secret for
nearly 10 years). The first advertising for the new ’45’ system appeared in
Billboard magazine in April 1949, and the first of the new 45 RPM discs
and automatic record players appeared in retail record shops in June
of 1949.
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