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 naturalized-French physicist and chemist born on this day in 1867• Ella Yelich-O’Connor, known professionally as […]
Sarah Goode received a U.S. patent for her invention of a folding cabinet bed on this day in 1885. Did you know that: • The first public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration was by Florida physician John Gorrie on this day in 1850• Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut patented the tape measure […]
Johnny Depp is an American actor, producer, and musician born on this day in 1963. Depp became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckler film series Pirates of the Caribbean. Did you know that: • George Stephenson, English inventor of the first steam locomotive engine for railroads […]
