Rise of Long-Distance Telephones
On March 27, 1884, the first long-distance phone call between New York and Boston was made.
On March 27, 1884, the first long-distance phone call between New York and Boston was made.
On November 23, 1889, the world’s first jukebox was displayed and used at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco, California.
On July 25, 1909, Louis Blériot became the first person to fly across the English Channel. Born in Cambrai, France, on July 1, 1872, Blériot was the first of five children. At the age of 10, he attended the Institute of Notre Dame in Cambrai, where he often won prizes for his engineering drawings.
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was born on July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts.
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in Smiljan, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia).
Inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick died on May 13, 1884, in Chicago, Illinois.
On January 29, 1940, the US Post Office Department issued the first stamps in the Famous Americans Series.
Engineer and inventor Robert Fulton was born on November 14, 1765, in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
On September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison began providing electricity to a portion of New York City, an event often considered the start of the electrical age.