Apr 25 2024
Alessandro Volta reported his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London, on this day in 1800. Did you know that:• Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer born […]
Jan Matzeliger invented the first machine to manufacture shoes on this day in 1883. Did you know that:• Phineas Quimby received a patent for a steering mechanism on this day in 1850• The first stone for the Sagrada Familia Basilica […]
Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan, was an English writer born on this day in 1890, known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections. Did you know that:• Jan Matzeliger, the inventor of the shoe-lacing machine, was born on this […]
