1994 Birthday Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest, 62, mother 1990 Event Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later 1982 Death Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies 1981 Birthday Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby 1978 Birthday Louise Joy Brown, born in Oldham, England, world's 1st "test tube baby" 1973 Event 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station 1967 Event DNA created in a test tube 1961 Death Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron Tube, dies at 87 1954 Event IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1949 Event 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh 1936 Event 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri 1935 Event 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York 1915 Event Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude 1907 Event 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest 1906 Event Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube) 1901 Birthday Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube 1892 Event Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube 1873 Birthday Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube
