Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by surprise.
Within two decades, Edison’s invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound recordings.
On the 21st November 1877, American inventor Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound using a cylinder.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019