Simon and Schuster book publishing was founded on this day in 1938.

Did you know that:

• Rudolph Clausius, a German physicist known as one of the founders of thermodynamics, was born on this day in 1822
• The first photo of the Moon was taken by French photographer, Louis Daguerre, on this day in 1839
• Willis Carrier received a patent for the world’s first spray-type air conditioner on this day in 1906