This month in History – August
Thursday, August 27th, 2020
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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Friday, July 31st, 2020
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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Tuesday, June 30th, 2020
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 […]
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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.
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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 – 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 – 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
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 […]
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