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 first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled balloon.
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
Although numerous suspension bridges had been built prior to the Brooklyn Bridge, nothing came close to the almost 1,600 foot span across the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
Orville piloted the first flight, which lasted for just 12 seconds over a total distance of only 36.5 metres.
It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to town.
Frenchman Georges Claude’s neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show was used to light the front of the large exhibition space at the Grand Palais with red lighting.
Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains.
Within two decades, Edison’s invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound recordings.
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