This Month in History – January
Friday, February 1st, 2019
1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1842 1st US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn 1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Missouri 1610 Simon Marius. a German astronomer, independently discovers the first three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo 1816 Sophie Germain […]
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2019
1736 Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton’s theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere 1834 First US dental society organized (NY) 1835 First US mutual fire insurance company issues first policy (Rhode Island) 1910 Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show) 1846 C F Schoenbein obtains […]
Read More »This month in History – November
Friday, November 30th, 2018
1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed 1947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii 1957 World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich) 1639 First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts 1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car 1492 Ensisheim Meteorite […]
Read More »This month in History – October
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner 1947 1st telescope lens 200″ (508 cm) in diameter completed 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” 1855 American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine […]
Read More »This month in History – September
Sunday, September 30th, 2018
3114 BC Date Maya/Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar starts dating from (as corresponds to the Julian Calendar). 1716 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston) 1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe 1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk 1853 1st electric telegraph used – Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, California 1875 1st newspaper […]
Read More »This month in History – August
Thursday, August 30th, 2018
1774 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state 1941 The first Jeep is produced. 1955 1st microgravity research begins 2000 First patient to receive the Jarvik 2000, the first total artificial heart that can maintain blood flow in addition to generating a pulse 1709 1st known […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »This month in History – June
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 […]
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