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This Day, That Year – October 6

Zoya Siddiqui   Wed 06 Oct 2021    

Dr. Charles H Sheppard opened the first public bath in Brooklyn on this day in 1863. Did you know that: • Benjamin Hanks patented a self-winding clock on this day in 1783• Thomas Edison presented his first motion picture on […]

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This Day, That Year – September 4

Zoya Siddiqui   Sat 04 Sep 2021    

George Eastman received a patented for the first successful roll film hand camera, the Kodak, on this day in 1888. Did you know that:• Lewis H. Latimer, an American inventor who worked for Thomas Edison and invented an electric lamp, […]

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This Day, That Year – August 31

Zoya Siddiqui   Tue 31 Aug 2021    

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, was born on this day in 1985. Did you know that:• Thomas Edison patented a kinetoscope camera on this day in 1897• The Burgess Shale fossils […]

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August 12

Zoya Siddiqui   Thu 12 Aug 2021    

Born on this day in 1887, Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian-Irish physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theory. He is also known for his “Schrödinger’s cat” thought experiment. Did you know that:• American inventor Isaac Singer […]

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11th July in history

Zoya Siddiqui   Sun 11 Jul 2021    

US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp on this day in 1892. Did you know that:• Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro published his memoir on the molecular content of […]

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