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- 1941 - The Committee on Long Range Work and Relief Policies of the National Resources Planning Board transmitted to the President a comprehensive report "Security, Work and Relief Policies." This report advocated the addition of an insurance system that would provide disability and sickness benefits. [1]
Births
- 1913 - Dr. Robert Adler, inventor of the first practical wireless television remote control. The device, marketed as the "Zenith Space Command," used ultrasonics to transmit channel up/down and power on/off signals and was a precursor to the other types of environmental control units used today. [2] [3]
- 1918 - Leland C. Clark Jr. - American biochemist and inventor. Clark invented the first biosensor, a device to rapidly determine the amount of glucose in blood.[4]
References
- ↑ [Chronology:1940's http://www.ssa.gov/history/1940.html]. Social Security Online:Special Collections. Accessed on January 31, 2008.
- ↑ Adler Remote Control System. U.S. Patent #2,923,918. Accessed March 7, 2008.
- ↑ The Great Idea Finder - Remote Control Accessed March 7, 2008.
- ↑ "2005's Highest Engineering Honors Go to Designers of Spy Satellite, Inventor of Biosensors, and Innovative Educators." National Academy of Engineering. Feb. 22, 2005. Accessed on May 19, 2008.
