January 6, 1857: Patent for Zinc Ore Reduction by Samuel Wetherill
In 1857, a remarkable event unfolded that would significantly impact the mining and metallurgical industries: the patent for reducin...
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December 27, 2004: The Amazing SGR 1806-20
The nuclear furnaces in the Sun and stars create blistering heat and blinding light. Magnetism, however, plays no role in the fusion...
December 17, 1903: The Wright Brothers Make The First Sustained Motorized Aircraft Flight
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were Ame...
December 17, 1986: World’s First Heart-Lung and Liver Transplant
Thirty eight years ago Davina Thompson became the world's first patient to receive a heart, lung and liver transplant. The groundbre...
December 16, 1897: 1st Submarine with an Internal Combustion Engine Demonstrated
Designed in 1896 by Irish-American inventor John Phillip Holland and his Holland Torpedo Boat Company, the Holland VI was built at t...
December 14, 1900: Max Planck presents the Quantum Theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.
On December 14, 1900, MAX PLANCK presented his derivation of the distribution law for black-body radiation to the German Physical So...
December 11, 1972: Apollo 17 Lands at Taurus-Littrow
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Mo...
December 9, 1979: Smallpox is officially declared eradicated
On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease, which carries around a 30 percent...
December 9, 1868: The world’s first traffic light was introduced
On 9 December 1868,[4] the first non-electric gas-lit traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London to co...
December 8, 1987: Worldpowers agree to reduce nuclear arsenals
At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty between t...