This month in History – April
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
1984 8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours 1960 1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1) 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 1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1923 1st […]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould 1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains 1822 Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth 2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn 1877 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age […]
Read More »On this date in history
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
On this day in history the patent for the statue of liberty was issued. The application was filed on January 2, 1879.
Read More »This month in History – February
Monday, February 17th, 2020
1815 World’s first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1878 Frederick Thayer patents catcher’s mask (pat # 200,358) 1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC) 2019 Rare Black panthers spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya 1895 Moving picture projector patented 1794 1st US […]
Read More »This month in History – January
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office 1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY 1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington, D.C. 1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate their telegraph machine in New Jersey 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn 1898 […]
Read More »This month in History – December
Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented in Massachusetts 1854 Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair 1879 1st automatic telephone switching system patented 1805 Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth 1884 Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate 1994 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of […]
Read More »This month in History – November
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
1956 Nobel for physics awarded to William Shockley, Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen 2012 Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang 1846 Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg 1873 Dentist John Beers of San Franciso patents the gold crown 1879 African […]
Read More »This month in History – October
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time 1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner 1947 1st telescope lens 200″ (508 cm) in diameter completed 1856 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers 2015 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar […]
Read More »This month in History – September
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
1958 1st color video recording on magnetic tape presented, Charlotte, North Carolina 1753 1st steam engine arrives in north American colonies 1839 English scientist and astronomer John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph 1853 1st electric telegraph used – Merchant’s Exchange, San Francisco to Pt Lobos, California 1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip 1883 James Cutler […]
Read More »This month in History – August
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
1774 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state 1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system 1893 Henry Perky patents a machine for the preparation of cereals for food, otherwise known as shredded wheat 1914 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on […]
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