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This Year in History: Fun Fact: Work begins on the Natural History Museum, London.
Born in this Year: William D Coolidge, Engineer, His improvement on the tungsten filaments helped create the modern light bulbs and the first X-ray tube. He was the Director of the Research Laboratory at General Electric, where he developed ductile tungsten, replacing carbon in light bulbs. His greatest invention, a vacuum tube for easily generating x-rays, became an indispensable part of medical practices everywhere, and is still sometimes called the 'Coolidge tube'.

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