Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:27 PM for 13h 05m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1945, officials of the Japanese Empire sign the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945.
Dolls made for underrepresented kids embrace kindness:
New Berlin woman creates dolls for kids who don’t see themselves on the shelf. She’s made over 400 dolls for children with limb differences, medical conditions, birthmarks, and hand differences. Children who generally have problems finding dolls or toys that they can self identify with when playing.
The First Man to Record Sound:
Do you know who recorded the first-ever sound?
If you answered, ‘Thomas Edison,’ you are mistaken!
It was actually a bookseller in Paris, in the mid-1800s. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented a device called the Phonautograph, which recorded audio. He never considered that the sound could be played back, he simply wanted to record speech with the intent of reading it back instead. History was not kind to him, as Thomas Edison stole his thunder 20 years later. Over a century later, we unearth his long-forgotten recordings, and celebrate the real inventor of sound recording.