London’s Big Ben stopped ticking at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes on this day in 1997. Did you know that: • Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri created the first practical typewriter on this day in 1808• English physicist J. J. Thomson announced his discovery of the electron on this day in 1897• Mr. Potato Head became […]
Yellowstone became the world’s first national park on this day in 1872. Did you know that: • E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, began production of the first practical typewriter on this day in 1873• Albert Berry performed the first (attached-type) parachute jump from an aeroplane on this day in 1912• Magician and […]
Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, was born on this day in 1819. Did you know that: • Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first commercial mechanical reaper, was born on this day in 1809• William Henry Preece, a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor, was born on this day in 1834• Willem Kolff received a patent for the […]
William Purvis received a patent for a fountain pen on this day in 1890. Did you know that: • A typewriter was patented by Englishman Henry Mill on this day in 1714• The Marconi International Marine Communication Company established “CQD” as the first international radio distress signal on this day in 1904• A patent was […]
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation registered “The Simpsons” television show on this day in 1993. Did you know that: • George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patented a typewriter ribbon on this day in 1886• Karl Taylor Compton was an American physicist and atomic bomb scientist born on this day in 1887• IBM introduced the […]
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary born on this day in 1910. Did you know that: • Charles Thurber patented a typewriter on this day in 1843• Harry Houdini escaped from chains underwater at the Aquatic Park in fifty-seven seconds on this day in 1907• Dylan O’Brien is an American actor […]
Christopher Latham Sholes patented the Sholes and Glidden typewriter on this day in 1868, the first commercially successful of its kind. Did you know that: • Antoine Joseph Sax, the Belgian inventor of the saxophone was born on this day in 1848• First editions of “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” by Washington Irving […]
