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Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 15
1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun. 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights. 1905 – Las Vegas"
Tue, 15 May 2012 18:02:00 GMT | Tagged: HistoryThe Man Who Created Nachos
The Huffington Post: During World War II, wives of American military officers who lived at the Eagle Pass. Texas. base would often venture over the Rio Grande River to the nearby Mexican town of Piedras Negras. On one of these excursions, a group of women"
Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:49 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: May 16
On this day in 1843, the first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri. The Oregon Trail is a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) historic east-west wagon route and emigra"
Wed, 16 May 2012 19:25:38 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: May 18
On this day in 1808 the American entrepreneur Elijah Craig died. He was a Baptist preacher who invented bourbon whiskey. His name is now used as the brand name for a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey marketed by Heaven Hill."
Fri, 18 May 2012 17:22:23 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: May 9
On this day in 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London. William Cody, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, was the most famous American of his age. A child of the frontier Great Plains, Cody was renowned as a Pony Express rider, prospector, trapper,"
Wed, 09 May 2012 15:13:44 GMT | Tagged: HistoryThe Man Behind The Hair Brand: Vidal Sassoon
The New York Times: Vidal Sassoon, whose mother had a premonition that he would become a hairdresser and steered him to an apprenticeship in a London shop when he was 14, setting him on the path that led to his changing the way women wore and cared for th"
Thu, 10 May 2012 11:00:25 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: May 10
Today in 1893, the tomato legally became a vegetable in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. Here’s more of the story."
Thu, 10 May 2012 14:24:04 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 27
On this day in 1791, Samuel Morse, the American inventor and painter, and co-inventor of the Morse code was born. Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by "
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:38:22 GMT | Tagged: HistoryThe History Of The Twisted Pretzel
Soft or hard, have you ever wondered where the idea for a twisted pretzel was first born? Here is a little background on the first soft pretzel: The most widespread story is that the first pretzels were invented by a monk in 610 A.D. During the season of "
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:30:01 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 30
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 mill"
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:47:56 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 18
1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book. 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day. If it wasn’t for the crossword puzzle book that Simon & Schuster introduced in 1924, I’d say that just lik"
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:29:34 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 19
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained"
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:11:13 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 20
On this date in 1818, the German-born inventor Heinrich Göbel, was born. A controversial figure in the history of lighting, Goebel, who was originally from Germany but later moved to New York, claimed to have created working incandescent bulbs in the 1850"
Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:34:03 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 7
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the wes"
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:52:16 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 9
1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping. 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once th"
Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:05:05 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: April 10
1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into "
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:31:44 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 28
On this date in 1928, Nathan Stubblefield, a Kentucky melon farmer and the inventor of a method for wireless broadcasting audio before Tesla or Marconi’s invention of the radio, died. Stubblefield’s “radio” work via audio frequency"
Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:43:02 GMT | Tagged: HistoryCould Morse Patent The Internet?
Samuel Morse may have come long before the invention of the Internet, but that didn’t stop him from trying to patent the basic idea behind it, reports The Wall Street Journal. This would have been a patent for all uses of the telegraph—and would als"
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:30:40 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 29
1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1886 –"
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:27:02 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 30
1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. C"
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:59:42 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 20
1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed. 1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. 1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, unde"
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:42:07 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 21
1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph "
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:45:22 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 6
1840 – The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opens, the first dental school. 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. 1912 – The Oreo cookie is introduced by Nabisco"
Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:44:49 GMT | Tagged: HistoryToday in Entrepreneurial History: March 7
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone. 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. 1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rule"
Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:05:34 GMT | Tagged: HistoryJump Shot Inventor Entering Hall Of Fame
You may not be able to buy it at the store or take it home with you in a box, but Kenny Sailors still invented something that basketball fans know and love: the jump shot. The 91-year-old led Wyoming to the NCAA championship in 1943 and was named national"
Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:00:19 GMT | Tagged: History