Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Bourbon<br> * Exoskeletons<br> * Sand Printers<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1nT">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10156920531078455?comment_id=10156921230963455&notif_id=1531018621761130&notif_t=feed_comment&ref=notif">If you could change your name to a number, what number would you choose?</a><br> <br> * Madmarv’s number is: 8008<br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for July 11, 2018<br> This is the 192nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1405, that Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.<br> * Also today in 1576, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.<br> * Also on July 11, 1735, Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.<br> * It was on this date in 1796, that The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.<br> * That same date in 1801, French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.<br> * July 11, 1848, Waterloo railway station in London opens.<br> * 129 years ago today, Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.<br> * July 11, 1893, The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.<br> * Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists on this date in 1895.<br> * 121 years ago today, Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.<br> * To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States on this date in 1960.<br> * Also on July 11, 1962, Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.<br> * It was also this date in 1962 that First transatlantic satellite television transmission.<br> * On July 11, 1972, The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.<br> * 41 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<br> * Also today in 1979, America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.<br> * PTV is introduced as a kids programming block for PBS to broadcast educational programming to underprivileged children on this date in 1994.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Swedish chemist and mineralogist, Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, born on this date in 1709.<br> * American astronomer and author, Isabel Martin Lewis was born 137 years ago today.<br> * Alexander Prokhorov, the Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 102 years ago today.<br> * Venetia Burney, English educator, who named Pluto was born on that same date in 1918.<br> * Brazilian physicist and academic, César Lattes was born 94 years ago today.<br> * American-Canadian physicist and engineer, Theodore Maiman, born on this date in 1927.<br> * Italian physicist and academic, Tullio Regge was born 87 years ago today.<br> * Also turning 84 today is Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani Company Giorgio Armani.<br> * Pakistani physicist and academic, Pervez Hoodbhoy is 68 today.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 11 – Steven Truax (rednecktech)<br> * 12 – Shadowbird712 of <a href="http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.blogspot.com/">Shadowbird Studios</a> (http://shadowbirdsrandomcrap.
