History This Week

A look back at events that made history this week -
compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

Sunday 12 August 2007

1807 Fulton's Folly, the steamboat "Clermont" made its first journey.

1829 Original Siamese twins arrive in Boston for exhibition.

1835 Solyman Merrick of Springfield, MA patented the wrench.

1848 M. Waldo Hanchett of Syracuse, NY patented the dental chair.

1851 Singer of New York City patents the double-treadle sewing machine.

1856 Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed milk.

1858 Dr M Loomis conducts first radio experiments. Ohio, USA.

1865 Joseph Lister is the first doctor to use disinfectant during surgery.

1868 Tidal wave swamps Port Jackson (Sydney), Australia.

1877 Thomas A. Edison finished figuring out his first phonograph.

1880 Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Germany, was completed.

1888 O. B. Shallenberger of Rochester, PA patents the electric charge meter.

1889 W. Gray of Hartford, CT patented the coin-operated telephone.

1893 France is first country to introduce car registration plates.

1907 The first taxicab took to the streets of New York City.

1919 E.Fisk demos radiotelephony first time in Sydney, Australia,

1915 C. F. Kettering of Detroit, MI patents the electric automobile self-starter.

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