Agence Havas of Paris, France established a wire news service that sent an item by telegraph in 1845. Continue reading
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First Fashion Magazine
The first fashion magazine was published in Frankfurt, Germany, around 1586. Continue reading
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Continue reading
Die Gleichheit (Equality) Newspaper
A Socialist women’s newspaper Die Gleichheit (Equality), edited by Clara Zetkin (nee Clara Eissner) was first published in 1892 in Stuttgart, Germany. Continue reading
Newspaper Staff Cartoonist
Pall Mall Gazette of London, England hired Francis Carruthers Gould, a cartoonist artist in 1888 to draw editorial and political cartoons. Continue reading
Philosophical Transactions Periodical
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was the first periodical published in London, England. Continue reading
First Egyptian Newspaper
Mercury a Superconductor?
In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Director at the University of Leiden’s Cryogenic Laboratory, discovered that if you cool mercury Continue reading
Army Newspaper for Soldiers in the Field
United States troops during the Mexican War could receive a newspaper called, The American Flag. Continue reading
The First Magazine
The Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen (Edifying Monthly Discussions) was probably the first magazine which appeared in Hamburg, Germany, between 1663 and 1668. Continue reading