On July 20, 1969 (for Western Europeans it was one day later, i.e. July 21, 3:56 MEZ) United States' space mission Apollo 11 reached the moon with the lunar module Eagle and the two astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin about 76 hours after they left earth from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
On this day in 1877 Thomas A. Edison conceived the first idea for his phonograph, the very first mechanical tool for recording and reproducing (replaying) sound. The phonograph also was the invention that first gained him public notice.
Today for us it's pretty normal that electricity can be transmitted on a wire, because it's part of our daily life. But, in the early 18th century, when the English nature-scientist Stephen Gray was able to show that electricity really can be transmitted on a string of copper, it was an unheard-of revelation.
On May 27th 1937 The Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco spanning over the opening of the San Francisco Bay and connecting the City with Marin County was opened for public traffic. When the planning for the bridge started back in 1916 many experts said that a bridge couldn’t be built across the 6,700 ft (2,042 m) strait.
As you might know for sure, Benjamin Franklin wasn't only an enthusiastic scientist, inventor, and author, but also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His roots lay back in Boston, where he was born in 1706 as the son of a chandler. Therefore the family could not afford the adequate education for their 17 children....
kleines update bei der hackr.search (einer google cse basierten suchmaschine, die in den tollsten deutschsprachigen webtechblogs sucht): ich habe alle vorwiegend englischsprachigen blogs aus deutschland und österreich in die momb.search gesteckt (diese ist überhaupt auch ans herz gelegt, die ist nicht schlecht.) neu dabei sind viele blogs und einige tech-bezogene nachrichtenportale (futurezone, heise, zeit digital, …) und es gibt jetzt labels (fathead, longtail, analysis, hackr), mit denen man den skopus einschränken kann. in folgenden quellen wird derzeit in der hackr.search gesucht