Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 11

By Dane Carlson on February 11, 2013 in History

1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world’s first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term “robot”.

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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.