80 red, white, and blue walnut-sized glass light bulbs were hand-wired and placed around a large Christmas tree in the home of Edward H. Johnson’s New York home on Fifth Avenue.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The world’s first ‘Nickel-In-The-Slot Phonograph’ introduced the concept of the jukebox to the public.
On the 9th September 1947, the first computer ‘bug’ was found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer.
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.
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