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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »This Month in History – March
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 […]
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