This Month in History – May
Friday, May 31st, 2019
1887 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film (used in Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope)
1908 1908 “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright.
1956 US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1840 Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1847 Scot Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1908 1st Mother’s Day observed (Philadelphia)
1930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1866 Charles E. Hires invents “Hires Root Beer”
1877 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles costs $16,000!
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)