1949 The first US rocket to reach outer space (Bumper 5) is launched from the…
February 23rd
1455 While maybe not exactly accurate, February 23rd, 1455 is generally accepted as the date…
February 22nd
1857 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born in Hamburg, Germany. Hertz proved Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory of light…
February 21st
1858 The first electrical burglar alarm is installed by inventor Edwin T. Holmes in Boston,…
February 20th
1962 From Cape Canaveral, Florida, John Hershel Glenn Jr. is successfully launched into space aboard the…
February 19th
1878 Thomas Edison receives a US patent (No. 200521) for the phonograph. His first recording…
February 18th
1911 Frenchman Henri Pequet makes the first official air mail delivery in Allahabad, British India, moving…
February 17th
1959 Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite in space, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.…
February 16th
1880 30 engineers from eight states meet in the New York editorial offices of the…
February 14th
1876 The telephone was patented on this date separately by two men – Alexander Graham…
February 13th
1895 The Lumiere brothers filed a patent for appareil servant à l’obtention et à la…
February 12th
1809 Birth of Charles Darwin, big-name biologist and naturalist, proponent of the now widely accepted…