This Day, That Year – February 1

Thomas Edison completed the world’s first movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey on this day in 1893.

Did you know that:

• The first U.S. patent for an improvement to steamships was issued to Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet on this day in 1788
• Matthews, Tansil, and Fannin obtained a patent for a digital voicemail system on this day in 1983
• Harry Styles is an English singer, songwriter, and actor born on this day in 1994