All posts tagged "science"
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6.0K21MassachusettsMaria Mitchell Discovers Her Very Own Comet
On a clear autumn night in 1847, 29-year-old Maria Mitchell climbed to the roof of the Pacific National Bank on Nantucket and...
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3.8K8Business and LaborSamuel F.B. Morse: Father of the Telegraph from Charlestown, Massachusetts
‘What Hath God Wrought?’ With those words, the invention known as the telegraph was first put into use in a transmission from...
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6.7K6MassachusettsRobert Goddard, Rocket Scientist, Annoys the Neighbors
As a teenager, Worcester’s Robert Goddard climbed a cherry tree on his family farm on Oct. 19, 1899 and dreamed of building...
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6.6K12MassachusettsFrances Perkins Works for God, FDR and the Common Workingman
Frances Perkins was having tea with her friend, Mrs. Gordon Norris, in New York City, on the afternoon of March 25, 1911, when...
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4.6K2MassachusettsThe Amazing Escape of Franklin Sanborn in 1860
One April evening in 1860. Franklin Sanborn answered a knock on the door of his home in Concord, Mass. Deputy U.S. Marshal...
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14.8K12Business and LaborCracking the History of the Uncommon Common Cracker
Every so often when you’re looking through a book of old New England recipes, you’ll find one that calls for the common...
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5.6K1Science and NatureRemembering Wilson Bentley, The Snowflake Photographer
Were he alive today, Wilson Bentley would be likely putting an end to his travels and speaking schedule for the year and...
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7.9K3ConnecticutGeorge Washington’s Submarine: Made in Connecticut
New York Harbor — September 6, 1776, 11 p.m. At the foot of Whitehall Street in New York City, where the Staten...
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7.7K2Business and LaborHow the Polaroid Camera Was Born at a Connecticut Boys Camp
The Polaroid Corporation was born in a Lebanon, Conn., boys camp in 1922 when a teacher showed a 13-year-old how to take...
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