This Week in History: Medicine/Science
1846 Discovery of ether, by dentist William Morton.
1902 First US patent for manufacture of rayon.
1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T … fondly known as “the Tin Lizzie.”
1922 Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory made first radar observations.
1924 Birthday of US writer Truman Capote, forever identified with this observation about mental health: “In California, everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.”
1974 First Lady Betty Ford had a mastectomy … and for the first time, information on the importance of breast health became part of the public discussion.
1976 At a wildlife symposium in Washington, DC, the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (Russell Peterson) noted: “We breathe today the same air that Julius Caesar breathed.”