Chappe was born into a wealthy family in 1763 and originally trained as a member of the church.
14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA
14th March 2020
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.
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
On the 31st December 1935, the board game Monopoly was patented.
On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
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.
2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with Argentine invasion
2nd April 2020
31st March 1905: Wilhelm II provokes the First Moroccan Crisis
31st March 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
