History This Week

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

Monday 22 October 2007

1824 Portland Cement patented by J.Aspdin, Wakefield, Yorkshire.

1853 Cobb arrives in Australia to set up Cobb & Co. stagecoach lines.

1861 First transcontinental telegraph msg San Francisco to Washington. The Pony Express completed its last run the same day.

1879 Edison invents the incandescent electric lamp.

1884 Edison patents 2 element lamp. (Diode valve)

1891 P.B. Browning patents first mailbox.

1896 "Passengers alighting from Ferry 'Brighton' at Manly" is screened in Sydney.

1915 First transAtlantic speech relay by radiotelephone by AT&T Arlington to Paris.

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