This Day, That Year – May 17

James Clerk Maxwell presented the first colour photograph of a tartan ribbon to the Royal Institution in London on this day in 1861.

Did you know that:

• John Hawkins and Richard French received a patent for the Reaping Machine on this day in 1803
• A water wheel was patented by Lorenzo Adkins on this day in 1839
• The first weekly comic paper, Comic Cuts, was published in London on this day in 1890