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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant, Thomas Watson

  • 10th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Invention, Science, Technology, Telephone

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with speech.

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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

  • 7th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Germany, Marconi, Navy, Radio, Science, Ship, Technology, Wireless

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.

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6th March 1869: Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society

  • 6th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Chemistry, Discovery, Periodic Table, Russia, Science

While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed an element should exist, he was able to calculate the missing element’s atomic mass and properties.

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21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

  • 21st January 2023
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Economy, Invention, Northern Ireland, Science, Technology, USA

The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.

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28th December 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes his discovery of X-rays

  • 28th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Germany, Health, Medicine, Physics, Science, Technology, x-ray

Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.

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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

  • 23rd December 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Benjamin Franklin, Electricity, Experimentation, Science, Turkey

Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a turkey.

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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

  • 9th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Chemistry, Invention, Lead, Oil, Poison, Science, Technology, United States, USA

Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.

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7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

  • 7th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Apollo, Earth, Moon, NASA, Photography, Science, Space, Space Race, Technology, United States, USA

The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.

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3rd December 1967: The first human-to-human heart transplant is performed

  • 3rd December 2022
  • Tagged as: Health, Hospital, Medicine, Science, South Africa, Surgery, Transplant

South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.

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24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

  • 24th November 2022
  • Tagged as: Darwin, Discovery, Evolution, HMS Beagle, Natural Selection, Science

Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of science.

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