Apr 26 2024
French cyclist, Paul Cornu, flew the first helicopter on this day in 1907. Did you know that: • The first shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii came in on this day in 1895• “Fantasia” animated film by Walt Disney, starring […]
Jules Leotard performed the first Flying Trapeze circus act in Paris on this day in 1859. Did you know that: • Ambrose Godfrey patented gunpowder fueled fire extinguisher system in England on this day in 1723• Ryan Gosling is a […]
Alvan Clark patented the telescope on this day in 1851. Did you know that: • German mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, demonstrated integral calculus for the first time, to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function, on […]
German engineer, Gottlieb Daimler, unveiled the world’s first motorcycle on this day in 1885. Did you know that: • Granville T Woods patented the electric railway on this day in 1891• Jack Northrop, an aircraft designer who founded Northrop Air, […]
George Bruce received the first design patent for printing typefaces on this day in 1842. Did you know that: • Arthur Rudolph, a German rocket engineer who helped develop the American space program, was born on this day in 1906• […]
Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer born on this day in 1966. Did you know that: • German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range, today known as X-rays or […]
Robert Goddard demonstrated tube-launched solid propellant rockets on this day in 1918. Did you know that: • Pierre Gassendi observed the first ever transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler on this day in 1631• Marie Curie was a Polish and […]
Adolphe Sax, a Belgian inventor, and musician who created the saxophone, was born on this day in 1814. Did you know that: • Alois Senefelder, a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography, was born on […]
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of India’s national men’s cricket team born on this day in 1988. Did you know that: • George B Selden was granted the first US patent for a gasoline driven […]
Richard Gatling received a patent for the Gatling gun on this day in 1862. Did you know that: • Benjamin Palmer patented the artificial leg on this day in 1846• Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patented the gold crown […]
Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T on this day in 1911. Did you know that: • Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the island of Dominica, originally inhabited by the Kalinago, on this day in 1493• […]
