1862 – James Glaisher, pioneering meteorologist and Henry Tracey Coxwell break world record for altitude whilst collecting data in their balloon. 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City. 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal […]
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1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty
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On this day in 1904 the automobile tire chain Was patented. In snowy conditions, transportation authorities may require that snow chains or other traction aids be installed on vehicles, or at least supplied for them. This can apply to all vehicles, or only those without other traction aids, such as four-wheel drive or special tires.
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1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. 1926 – Japan’s public broadcasting company, Nippon HÅsÅ KyÅkai (NHK) is established. On 22 March 1925, one and a half years after the Great KantÅ earthquake, Radio Japan produced the first radio broadcast in the country, transmitting from Atago Hill
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Once compared to contemporaries Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and George Westinghouse, Frank Sprague, for better or worse, could be called the “father of the modern city,” according to a story in the Connecticut Post. Two of his key inventions — the first electric motor that ran at a constant speed under various loads and
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1807 – Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened. 1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by
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1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood California.
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1885 – Japan’s first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London, England. 1893 – France becomes the first
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1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public
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1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. Sony’s cofounders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, met near the end of World War II. Ibuka was an engineer
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