This Month in History – May
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...
This month in History – April
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...
This month in History – March
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...
This Month in History – February
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...
This Month in History – January
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...
This month in History – January
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...
This month in History – November
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...
This Month in History – May
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...
This month in History – April
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...
This month in History – March
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...