History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week -
compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW
Monday, 23 January, 2012
1807 London's Pall Mall became the first street of any city to be illuminated by gaslight.
1839 Michael Faraday publicly announced for the first time the existence of photography.
1851 The first trial trip of an electric locomotive was made in Washington, D.C.
1878 The first commercial telephone exchange in the U.S. was installed at New Haven, Connecticut.
1880 Thomas Edison received a patent (#223,898) for his electric incandescent lamp he invented on 21 Nov 1879.
1886 Karl Benz applied for a patent for his Benz Patent Motorwagen, a three-wheeler with one-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine.
1896 Wilhelm Roentgen first made a public lecture-demonstration of his X-ray device, in Würzburg, Germany.
1911 Glenn Curtiss piloted the first hydroplane flight at North Island, San Diego, California.
1939 The uranium atom was split for the first time using the cyclotron at Columbia University in New York City.
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Our thanks to John Alcorn, VK2JWA of the Summerland Amateur Radio Club for this weekly feature.
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