This Day, That Year – March 14
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented a “Navigable Balloon” on this day in 1899. Did you know that: • Physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek, inventor of the first electrical capacitor, the Leyden Jar, was born on this day in 1692• Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin machine on this day in 1794• James […]
