History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week -
compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW
Monday, 30 January, 2012
1788 A patent for a steamboat was issued by the state of Georgia to Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet.
1838 A U.S. patent was issued for the screw propellor to John Ericsson (No. 588). A Swedish American.
1839 Fox Talbot read a paper before the Royal Society, London, to describe his photographic process using solar light.
1879 The first practical, usable incandescent filament electric light bulb was demonstrated to an audience of 700 by its inventor J.W.Swan
1880 The steamship SS Strathleven arrived in London with first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
1893 Edison's patent concerning the "Manufacture of Carbon Filaments for Electric Lamps" (No. 490,954).
1901 The world's tallest geyser was discovered by Dr Humphrey Haines on the North Island of New Zealand.
1913 A patent for a "demountable tire-carrying rim", was issued to Louis Henry Perlman of New York City.
1918 Thomas A. Edison was issued a U.S. patent for a "Starting and Current-Supplying System for Automobiles"
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Our thanks to John Alcorn, VK2JWA of the Summerland Amateur Radio Club for this weekly feature.
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