In 1899 at South Foreland, England, the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Ltd., owned by Guglielmo Marconi, established a wireless station for international communications. Continue reading
Tag: France
Casino card game called Faro
The name derives from a picture of an Egyptian pharaoh displayed on one of the cards. Continue reading
Jean-Baptiste Constant Moens
Moens began collecting stamps from his family's mail as a boy in Tournai. He was the son of Colette Blangenois and Phillipe Moens, a soldier. Continue reading
Machine for printing wallpaper
Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, a Frenchman, invented a machine for printing wallpaper in 1785. Continue reading
The first European legislator of African descent
Louisy Mathieu, who was a European of African descent, was elected on August 22nd 1848, representing Guadeloupe in the French National Assembly, serving only one term. Continue reading
Stamp catalogs or lists for stamp collectors
Oscar Berger-Levrault and Alfred Potiquet, both French philatelists, issued in 1861 stamp catalogs also called lists for stamp collectors. Continue reading
ail accident in which more than 500 people were killed
On December 12, 1917, an overloaded troop train derailed at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, France. The Rail accident’s official death toll was 573, but there could have been as many as 1,000 soldiers deaths. Continue reading
Daniel Cohen
Co-Founder of Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, now called Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH.
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The Human chromosome mapped
Published in October 1992 in the journals Nature and Science, were the Human chromosome gene-linkage maps. Continue reading
aeronautical society
The Societe Aerostatique, was the first aeronautical society, founded in 1852, in the city of Paris, France Continue reading