On the 3rd December 1910, the first neon light went on show at the Paris Motor Show.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
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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 3rd November 1957, Laika the dog became the first animal to enter orbit around the Earth when she was launched into space on board the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
On the 1st November 1911, the first aerial bombing using an aeroplane took place when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades on Turkish troops in Libya.
By the summer of 1987 it had become public knowledge that the Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to disable.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
On the 18th October 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was established.
Known as the Orloj, the astronomical clock was designed and built by the Imperial clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Charles University professor Jan Šindel.
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.
7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
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5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia
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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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