Birth of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia).
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia).
Physicist John Bardeen was born on May 23, 1908, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born on May 21, 1878, in Hammondsport, New York. He became interested in bicycles as a young man and was a champion racer, riding bikes he had designed and built.
Inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick died on May 13, 1884, in Chicago, Illinois.
William Thomas Piper was born on January 8, 1881, in Knapp Creek, New York.
Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1765, in Westborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
John (Johan) Ericsson was born on July 31, 1803, in Värmland, Sweden.
On July 28, 1898, Alexander Winton began a nine-day test-drive of his automobile, proving its reliability to investors.
Telegraph inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Massachusetts.