All posts tagged "inventions"
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3.2K2Business and LaborAnother Day of Infamy: Airing of the First TV Commercial
On Dec. 7, 1930, what is believed to be the world’s first TV commercial was aired from a primitive television station on...
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8.2K1Arts and LeisureHelen Metcalf, The Mom Who Founded RISD With Some Leftover Dough
In 1877, a Providence mom named Helen Metcalf persuaded her women’s club to spend money left over from a fair to found...
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12.5K3MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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8.9K1Religion and Social MovementsAn American in England, 1828, Is Shocked By English Drinking Habits
America’s drinking habits were changing for the better as the new country passed its 50th anniversary, at least according to a Rhode...
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5.2K4Business and LaborAmerica Gains Its First Map, the Mapmaker Gains Back His Ear
Abel Buell was an uncommonly ingenious cartographer who created the first map of the United States, but only after part of his...
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9.6K10Business and LaborThomas Edison Tries To Go Camping in New Hampshire
In the summer of 1919, Thomas Edison went camping in New Hampshire with three of his closest friends: naturalist John Burroughs, automaker...
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9.4K6Politics and MilitaryCatherine Greene, Not Your Ordinary General’s Wife
Catherine Greene was the devoted wife of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, the mother of five children and – possibly – the...
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19.5K8Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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3.9KBusiness and LaborElisha Otis Gets a Sales Lesson From P.T. Barnum
Vermont-born tinkerer Elisha Otis thought so little of the safety elevator he invented that he didn’t bother to get a patent for...
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2.7K1Business and LaborJohn McTammany, Aggrieved Pioneer of the Player Piano
John McTammany loved music and he loved machines, and those two loves led to the creation of a perforated paper player for...
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