Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Mar 28, 2013

Three Mile Island

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  (Wikipedia) - The Three Mile Island accident was the most significant accident in the history of the American commercial nuclear power ...
Mar 12, 2013

The Girls of the Manhattan Project

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  (The Daily Beast) ... In The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, Denise Kiernan recrea...
Feb 11, 2013

William Fox Talbot

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(Wikipedia) William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography, born on February 11, 1800 and died on September ...
Feb 10, 2013

Engineers of Victory

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(NYTBR) The historian Daniel Boorstin once complained to me about the Smithsonian Institution’s decision in 1980 to delete the final two wo...
Jan 22, 2013

Columbia Records

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  (Wikipedia) The Columbia Phonograph Company was originally the local company run by Edward Easton, distributing and selling Edison phon...
Jan 15, 2013

Mathew Brady

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  (Wikipedia) Mathew B. Brady (1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known fo...
Jan 8, 2013

Project Diana

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(Wikipedia) Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana — goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon — was a project of the ...
Dec 5, 2012

Glenn L Martin

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Martin TA-4J Skyhawk (Martin Museum) Glenn Luther Martin (January 17, 1886 - December 5, 1955). At the time he taught himself to fly in...
Nov 25, 2012

1940: First flight of the Martin B-26 Marauder

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(Wikipedia) The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. The first US medi...
Nov 24, 2012

Nov. 24, 1903: Starting Your Car Gets a Bit Easier

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1903 (Wired): Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter. Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, ...
Nov 13, 2012

John Dahlgren

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(Wikipedia) John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870) was a United States Navy leader. He headed the Union Navy...
Oct 1, 2012

Pennsylvania Turnpike

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(Wikipedia) ... When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940, it was the first long-distance rural highway in the United States an...
Sep 26, 2012

50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters

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(Smithsonian) It was 50 years ago this coming Sunday that the Jetson family first jetpacked their way into American homes. The show laste...
Jul 27, 2012

Jeremiah Dixon

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(Wikipedia) - Jeremiah Dixon (Cockfield, County Durham July 27, 1733 – Cockfield, County Durham January 22, 1779) was an English surveyo...
Jun 28, 2012

Still Toxic After All These Years

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(Aegis) Minute amounts of a World War I blister agent were found at an Aberdeen Proving Ground demolition site after a pipe was broken ...
Jun 2, 2012

Credible Amelia Earhart radio signals were ignored as bogus

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(Discovery) Dozens of previously dismissed radio signals were actually credible transmissions from Amelia Earhart, according to a new s...
May 24, 2012

"What hath God wrought"

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May 24, 1844 - Samuel F. B. Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Sup...
May 8, 2012

Walters donates artwork images to Wikipedia

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(Baltimore Sun) The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wik...
Feb 28, 2012

The B & O Railroad

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(LoC) On February 28, 1827, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first U.S. railway chartered for the commercial transportation of ...
Feb 12, 2012

July 1919: "Big Dirigible, C-8, Explodes, Injuring 80, After Landing at Camp Holabird, Baltimore"

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(NYTimes) BALTIMORE, July 1 - The big navy dirigible [blimp] C-8, which made a landing here on the way from Cape May, N. J., to Washington, ...