Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The world’s first ‘Nickel-In-The-Slot Phonograph’ introduced the concept of the jukebox to the public.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
By the end of the competition Rocket was the only engine to complete the full course without suffering any damage, securing Stephenson the contract to manufacture locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway that opened the following year.
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model Ts.
The British MP William Huskisson died as a result of a fatal accident on the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The bug in the Harvard Mark II was very literal since it was a moth trapped between the points inside an electromagnetic relay.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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