Today in Entrepreneurial History: July 3-5

By Dane Carlson on July 5, 2011 in History

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Today in Entrepreneurial History: July 3

• 1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
• 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
• 1886 – The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• 1938 – World speed record for a steam railway locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 miles per hour (203 km/h).

Today in Entrepreneurial History: July 4

• 1817 – At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.
• 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
• 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.
• 1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

Today in Entrepreneurial History: July 5

• 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
• 1951 – William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
• 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
• 1998 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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