On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
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Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains.
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.
On the 8th October 1829, Robert Stephenson’s steam locomotive The Rocket won the Rainhill Trials and secured a prize of £500 and the contract for Robert Stephenson and Company to produce locomotives for the new Liverpool & Manchester Railway that opened the following year.
On the 4th August 1693, legend says that French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented champagne.
If you ever claimed that something was the greatest thing since sliced bread, you’re referring to a very particular date – the 7th July 1928.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
The world speed record for locomotives – steam trains – was set on the 3rd July 1938 by Number 4468 Mallard.
The 29th June 2008 shaped the technological landscape we live in today, when Apple released the very first iPhone.
On the 20th May 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis secured the patent for riveted blue jeans.
7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
7th December 2019
5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia
5th December 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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