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You can watch the #TempleU team compete in @NASA 's Lunabotics competition May 23-26 http://t.co/aqNT0sqw
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May 23, 1916: Thomas Edison was issued 3 patents for his "Phonograph or Talking Machine."
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May 23, 1825: The electromagnet was 1st exhibited by its inventor, William Sturgeon
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May 23, 1785: In a letter from France Benjamin Franklin described his bifocal glasses
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May 23, 1917: Mathematician & meteorologist Edward Lorenz, known for pointing out the "butterfly effect," is born
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May 23, 1915: Physicist Clyde Wiegand, who worked on the Manhattan Project & also helped discover the anti-proton, is born
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May 23, 1908: Physicist, John Bardeen, who was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in both 1956 & 1972, is born
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May 23, 1707: Carolus Linnaeus, who 1st established a uniform system for naming organisms by genera & species, is born
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May 23, 1667: Jakob Christof Le Blon, who invented the modern system of four-color printing, is born
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Daily Science Fact: With average levels of salt, seawater freezes at 28.4 °F
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We *love* this video: PA students swept up in MESA Wind Energy Challenge at #TempleU http://t.co/SKyjTiei #inspired [@TempleUniv ]
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May 22, 1995: Astronomers found 2 new moons of Saturn in photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
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"In no subject is there a rule, compliance with which will lead to new knowledge or better understanding" -- Thomas Gold
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May 22, 1989: 1st successful transfer of cells containing foreign genes into a human being is performed at NIH
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May 22, 1973: Robert Metcalfe wrote a memo describing his multipoint data communications system Ethernet
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May 22, 1906: The Wright brothers received a patent for "new and useful improvements in Flying Machines"
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May 22, 1849: Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for "buoying boats over shoals," the 1st U.S. president to receive one
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May 22, 1920: Astronomer Thomas Gold, known for naming the magnetosphere, is born
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May 22, 1912: Chemist Herbert C. Brown, who developed organoboranes & shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry, is born
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May 22, 1783: William Sturgeon, who devised the 1st electromagnet capable of supporting more than its own weight, is born
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Daily Science Fact: About 5% of Earth's water is frozen solid & exists as glaciers covering about 10% of the land surface
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#TempleU offers professional science master's in chemistry http://t.co/n1NsJ6Hu
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Philly high school students graduate from #TempleU MESA computer science class http://t.co/CS6eJpg4
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Tactile imaging sensor developed by #TempleU engineer could help doctors 'feel' tumors http://t.co/0see9OPi
