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Richard Bowie Spikes (October 2, 1878 – January 22, 1963) was an African-American inventor.The holder of a number of United States patents, his improvements on existing inventions include a beer tap, automobile directional signals, an automatic gear shift device based on automatic transmission for automobiles and other motor vehicles and a safety braking system for trucks and buses.
In 1988 Dr. Spikes accepted the position of president of the Southern University and A&M College System.-- she not only was the first woman to lead a public college or university in Louisiana, she also was the first woman in the US to serve as chief administrator for a university system. [4]
Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes: Louisiana State University: Semi-valuations and groups of divisibility [122] 1971 (M) Orville Edward Kean University of Pennsylvania: Abstract horn theories [123] 1971 (M) Nguthu John Mutio Syracuse University: Frobenius groups [124] 1971 (M) Eddie Robert Williams Columbia University: The Poincaré lemma with ...
October 2 – Richard Spikes, African American inventor (died 1963) October 16 – Maxie Long, track athlete (died 1959) October 17 – Louise Dresser, actress (died 1965) October 18 – Blind Uncle Gaspard, Cajun vocalist and guitarist (died 1937) October 19 – Alphonse Picou, jazz clarinettist (died 1961)
A logarithmic timeline is a timeline laid out according to a logarithmic scale. This necessarily implies a zero point and an infinity point, neither of which can be displayed. The most natural zero point is the Big Bang, looking forward, but the most common is the ever-changing present, looking backward. (Also possible is a zero point in the ...
January 22 – Richard Spikes, inventor (b. 1878) [54] January 29 – Robert Frost, poet (b. 1874) February 11 – Sylvia Plath, Poet, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1932) March 4 – William Carlos Williams, poet (b. 1883) March 5 – plane crash Patsy Cline, country music singer (b. 1932) Cowboy Copas, country music singer (b. 1913)
Visual representation of the Logarithmic timeline in the scale of the universe. This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table. Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of the chart. In each table cell on the right, references to ...
The key "calculators", writing in the second quarter of the 14th century, were Thomas Bradwardine, William Heytesbury, Richard Swineshead and John Dumbleton. [1] Using the slightly earlier works of Walter Burley , Gerard of Brussels , and Nicole Oresme , these individuals expanded upon the concepts of 'latitudes' and what real world ...