The famous John Boyd Dunlop, to whom we owe the popularization of the use of pneumatic tires on all road vehicles, was born on this day. The Dunlop tire brand is still re...
On this day the first Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, were released for sale. They greatly resembled to the Macintosh graphical interface. Microsoft even had to remove so...
On this day in 1970 American inventor Douglas Engelbart obtained a patent (U.S. Patent 3,541,541) for a computer mouse. In the patent application the device was called “X...
On this day Dr. Albert Hofmann first synthesized a compound called LSD. Hofmann was an employee of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz. In their lab, he studied the s...
On this day Briton Hugh Gray took first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. He was walking home from church that day carrying a small camera. He saw a large creature i...
Robert F. Scott was a British polar explorer. In the year 1910 he started a bold expedition to Antarctica with the goal of being the first to conquer the South Pole. On 1...
American Edwin Drake, apparently the first man to drill in search for oil, died on this day. Drake is known in the U.S. for constructing the oil well called “Drake Well”....
On this day the famous actress Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna. She was born under the name Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, to wealthy Jewish parents. She started acting in film...