London’s Big Ben stopped ticking at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes on this day in 1997. Did you know that:• Italian inventor Pellegrino Turri created the first practical typewriter on this day in 1808• English physicist J. J. Thomson announced […]
Yellowstone became the world’s first national park on this day in 1872. Did you know that:• E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, began production of the first practical typewriter on this day in 1873• Albert Berry performed the […]
Christopher Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter, was born on this day in 1819. Did you know that:• Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the first commercial mechanical reaper, was born on this day in 1809• William Henry Preece, a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor, […]
William Purvis received a patent for a fountain pen on this day in 1890. Did you know that:• A typewriter was patented by Englishman Henry Mill on this day in 1714• The Marconi International Marine Communication Company established “CQD” as […]
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation registered “The Simpsons” television show on this day in 1993. Did you know that:• George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patented a typewriter ribbon on this day in 1886• Karl Taylor Compton was an American […]
Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary born on this day in 1910. Did you know that:• Charles Thurber patented a typewriter on this day in 1843• Harry Houdini escaped from chains underwater at the Aquatic Park […]
Christopher Latham Sholes patented the Sholes and Glidden typewriter on this day in 1868, the first commercially successful of its kind. Did you know that:• Antoine Joseph Sax, the Belgian inventor of the saxophone was born on this day in […]