On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt
30th September 2020
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement ‘in making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process.’
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.
British inventor Edwin Budding went into partnership with foundry owner John Ferrabee to manufacture the world’s first lawn mower.
Chappe was born into a wealthy family in 1763 and originally trained as a member of the church.
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr was the director of research at DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey where he was exploring the use of cathode ray tubes in television sets.
The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018