Thermoformed Plastic Condoms are the invention of Robert Miller and coworkers of a Canadian firm called Ortho-McNeil Inc. , a pharmaceutical and medical supply company. Continue reading
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The Theory that Light has particles…
On December 4, 1900, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck theorized that light radiates not as waves (as Isaac Newton claimed), but that light was made of particles or packets called quanta. Continue reading
Underwater Excavation of a Shipwreck
Some sponge divers in 1900 found a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece (thats near Crete) at a depth of about 170 feet (50-60 meters). Continue reading
Discovery of Antimatter
Physicist Carl David Anderson discovered antimatter in 1932 in a magnetic cloud chamber at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Continue reading
Forestry Treatise
John Evelyn a member of the Royal Society produced the study for the commissioners of the British Navy entitled importance was Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest trees, and the Propagation of Timber in 1664. Continue reading
Magnetism Treatise
Magnetism treatise published Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete (Letter of Peter Peregrinus de Maricourt to Sygehus of Foucaucourt, Soldier, on the Magnet) in the mid-13th century. Continue reading
King David I Defined the Inch
Scotland's King David I defined one "ynche" is equal in width to the base of a man's thumbnail, Continue reading
First Achromatic Microscope
English optician Joseph Jackson Lister invented the Achromatic microscope in 1830. Continue reading
Ocean-Mapping Satellite Launched
The ocean-mapping satellite was Seasat 1, launched by the United States on June 26, 1978. Continue reading
Germans Discovered Continental Drift in 1912
Alfred Lothar Wegener, a German meteorologist, geophysicist, and Arctic explorer presented theoretical evidence of the continental drift in 1912. Continue reading