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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed1947 First Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii1957 World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)1639 First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near […]
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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