This Month in History – July
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine 1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon trav1872 Doughnut cutter patents granted to John Blondel, Thomaston, Maine 1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC) 552 Origin of Armenian calendar 1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, […]
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Sunday, June 30th, 2019
1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws 2015 Dr. Jesse Selber performs the world’s first partial-skull and scalp transplant at Houston Methodist Hospital 781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse 1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »This Month in History – April
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
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 1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair 1986 Halley’s Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii 1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago 1924 “Happy Birthday To You” published by Claydon Sunny 1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter’s rings 1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls 1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Jupiter’s satellite Io 1781 William Herschel sees what […]
Read More »This Month in History – February
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY 1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1578 Tycho Brahe first sketches “Tychonic system” of solar system 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »This Month in History – December
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 […]
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