Summary: Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1sJ">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Question of the week: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156652407891671">What’s very cheap today but will be very expensive in 20 years?</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for February 5, 2020<br> This is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1869, that The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.<br> On February 5, 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic.<br> 107 years ago today, Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.<br> Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists on this date in 1919.<br> On February 5, 1924, The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.<br> A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered on this date in 1958.<br> February 5, 1971, Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> German mathematician and physicist, Gaspar Schott, born on this date in 1608.<br> Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger was born 225 years ago today.<br> American engineer, invented the Maxim gun, Hiram Maxim, born on this date in 1840.<br> John Boyd Dunlop, the Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber was born 180 years ago today.<br> Born February 5, 1878, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën André Citroën.<br> American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Robert Hofstadter, born on this date in 1915.<br> Red Buttons, the American actor was born 101 years ago today.<br> Also turning 83 today is Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician Alar Toomre.<br> Also born on that same date in 1943, American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc, Nolan Bushnell.<br> Also turning 73 today is American engineer and astronaut Mary L. Cleave.<br> American actress, Barbara Hershey is 72 today.<br> American actor and director, Christopher Guest, born on this date in 1948.<br> Also born on that same date in 1969, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor, Bobby Brown.<br> <br> Listener birthdays<br> <br> 01 – Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA<br> 01 – Brandon Kirkwold – MN<br> 02 – Gary Lindros – aka Gary from Jacksonville – Groundhog’s Day Rules!!!<br> 02 – Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck’s evil twin<br> 02 – Oreo Cookie Monster<br> 03 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK<br> 07 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN<br> 07 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA<br> 08 – Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK<br> 09 – <a href="http://podcastmike.com/">“Podcast” Mike Wills</a> from Minnesota<br> 10 – Zach Akgulian – Appleton, WI<br> 10 – Drace (Shari from ND)<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 5, 2020<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/305564-scientists-snap-closest-ever-view-of-the-sun">Scientists Snap Closest-Ever View of the Sun – ExtremeTech</a><br> <a href="https://www.cnn."></a>
