Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 9

By Dane Carlson on January 9, 2013 in History

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• 1768 – In London, England, Great Britain, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
• 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.

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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 12,203 posts to the site.

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