This month in History – July
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine 1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today) 1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus 1806 Michael Keens exhibits 1st lareg-scale cultivated strawberry 1886 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2018
1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state 1869 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646) 1880 The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut 781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse 1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near […]
Read More »This month in History – May
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris 1908 1908 “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright. 1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House 1904 Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal 1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Illinois) 1830 “Mary […]
Read More »This month in History – April
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider 1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires 1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever – a 50-foot tidal wave 1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks 1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest 1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of […]
Read More »This month in History – March
Saturday, March 31st, 2018
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould 1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains 1956 “King Kong” 1st televised 1854 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes 1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US 1790 1st US census authorized 1864 Louis […]
Read More »This month in History – February
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington, D.C. 1878 World’s 1st telephone directory issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut) 1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn) 1782 Engineer James Watt’s patent for a rotary motion for the steam engine (his sun-and-planet gear) is granted 1893 Rudolf Diesel obtains a patent for […]
Read More »This month in History – January
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
1922 Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo) 1840 1st deep sea sounding by James Clark Ross in south Atlantic at 2425 fathoms (14,450 feet) 1870 Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883 1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office 1859 1st steamboat […]
Read More »This month in History – December
Friday, December 29th, 2017
1862 Bowling ball invented 1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, 1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator 1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium 1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) 1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World 1812 Peter Gaillard of […]
Read More »This month in History – November
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
1950 The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware 1977 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years 1572 Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia […]
Read More »This month in History – October
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper 1909 1st rugby match (Twickenham) 1916 San Diego Zoo founded 1923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star 1962 The Beatles release their first record, “Love Me Do” 1970 PBS becomes a US television network. 1846 Neptune’s moon Triton discovered by William Lassell 1899 African-American inventor […]
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