J. L. Love patented a pencil sharpener on this day in 1897. Did you know that: • Ducos du Hauron was granted a patent for the process of making colour photographs on this day in 1863• Andrew Beard was granted a patent for automatic car couplers on this day in 1897• Colin Turnbull was a […]
“Toy Story”, the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery, was released on this day in 1995. Did you know that: • Peregrine Williamson was issued a patent for a steel pen on this day in 1810• A design patent for the Congressional Medal of Honor was granted to George Gillespie on this day […]
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d’Arlandes made the first untethered balloon flight in a Montgolfier balloon on this day in 1783. Did you know that: • Issac Von Bunschoten patented a rosin-oil lamp on this day in 1854• Horror film “Frankenstein” was released on this day in 1931, based on Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”• […]
NEW YORK: A rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.2 million (AED 15m), a record price for a document or book sold at auction. The buyer, hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin, will loan the document to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, for […]
French inventor Pierre Lallement patented the rotary crank bicycle on this day in 1866. Did you know that: • Willard Bundy patented the time card clock on this day in 1888• A patent was granted to Garrett Morgan for a traffic signal on this day in 1923• Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released on this day […]
American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil on this day in 1895. Did you know that: • E.D. Barbour of Boston was awarded a patent for the first ‘calculator’ on this day in 1872• New York World published the first newspaper colour supplement on this day in 1893• Granville Woods was issued a patent […]
The first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon, Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie”, was released on this day in 1928. Did you know that: • William Tell reputedly shot an apple off his son’s head on this day in 1307• Richard Outcault’s early comic strip “Origin of a New Species” was published on this day in 1894• Brooklyn […]
Soichiro Honda was the founder and first CEO of the Honda Motor Company born on this day in 1906. Did you know that: • Emile Berliner was issued a patent for a combined telegraph and telephone on this day in 1891• Daniel DeVito is an American actor and filmmaker born on this day in 1944• […]
Extracts from Letters to Henslow, a collection of letters written by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, were published on this day in 1835. Did you know that: • Life preservers made of cork were patented by Napoleon Guerin on this day in 1841• Henry Potonie, a German geologist who studied coal formation, […]
A patent was granted to King C. Gillette for the Gillette safety razor on this day in 1904. Did you know that: • Isaac Pitman introduced his shorthand system of writing on this day in 1837• The Walt Disney Art School was created on this day in 1932• “Batman” film was released on videotape on […]
Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet – Kirch’s Comet/Newton’s Comet – on this day in 1680. Did you know that: • Samuel Pepys reported the first blood transfusion (between dogs) on this day in 1666• “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published by Cassell & Co on this day in 1883• Albert Einstein […]
