William Henry Gates III was born at Seattle Washington on this day in 1955. He attended the exclusive Lakeside School, where the Mothers Club used rummage sale proceeds to create one of the first computer labs ever installed in a high school. Because...
On this day in 1914 the first official Traffic Light went into operation on East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Although there had been previous attempts, like the one that killed a policeman in London in 1869. This one...
It was on this day in 1969 that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped down from Apollo 11's Lunar Lander, the Eagle, and onto the fine dust in the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, the first time earthlings made that trip. We all cheered. I'm often...
Nikolaus August Otto was born at Holzhausen, Germany on this day in 1832. In 1861 he patented a two-stroke gas powered (gas, not gasoline) internal combustion engine. The only previous internal combustion engine was best suited to converting fuel to waste...