History This Week

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

Sunday 20 May 2007

1785 Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal glasses.

1819 The first bicycles in NY, USA, were called 'swift walkers'.

1844 Morse sends his first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought!" to his associate 40 miles away.

1844 Stuart Perry of New York City patented the gasoline engine.

1905 Japanese navy defeats Russian navy, Tsushima. First use of naval radiotelephony.

1916 Daylight Saving Time introduced in England.

1930 R.G.Drew, USA, patents transparent cellophane adhesive tape.

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