The starting and ending point of this adventure were the St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The first underwater circumnavigation of the wo...
Felix Klein, the famous German mathematician, was born on this day in 1849. The Klein bottle was named after him. It is a mathematical example of a non-orientable surface...
China’s first successful launch of an object into space was historically important because China then entered the so-called “Space Club”. On this day China launched its f...
While the Shuttle was still in orbit, some engineers anticipated that there could be some damage on the shuttle, but NASA didn’t organize a thorough investigation under t...
In order to promote the Macintosh, Steve Jobs made a TV commercial directed by the famous Ridley Scott, which cost 900,000 U.S. dollars (a truly incredible amount at that...
On this day in 1977 the Apple company was incorporated, and became known as Apple Computer, Inc. The founders and shareholders were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. From 201...
Since it was supposed to be closest to the Sun of all the planets, it should have been the warmest. French mathematician Le Verrier, who predicted its existence, called i...
On this day the Bouvet Island – the most isolated island on the entire planet – was discovered. Namely, this island is more than 1,600 kilometers away from the nearest la...