Tag: Smithsonian

Podcast

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

22nd May 2022
Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, Boat, Engineering, Invention, Mechanical, Patent, River, Smithsonian, United States, USA

Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for his invention to lift boats over shoals and other obstructions in a river.

Podcast

10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

10th August 2020
Tagged as: History, Museum, Science, Smithsonian, Washington, Washington DC

It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.

Tag: Smithsonian

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

Meta

21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

28th May 1987: Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square

27th May 1199: Coronation of King John in Westminster Abbey

26th May 1897: Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula first published

25th May 1961: Kennedy announces plan for manned moon landing

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

Tag: Smithsonian

Tags

Meta