1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.”
Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical shape that, unlike regular lightning, tends to linger awhile. It occurs naturally but rarely, and despite the best efforts of Tesla and others, the exact origin of the phenomenon [...]
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March 5, 1904: Tesla’s Having a Ball
March 5th, 2010 |
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Nov. 16, 1904: Vacuum Tube Heralds Birth of Modern Electronics
November 16th, 2009 |
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1904: British engineer John Ambrose Fleming invents and patents the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube. With this advance, the age of modern wireless electronics is born.
Although the Supreme Court eventually invalidated Fleming’s U.S. patent — ruling that the technology he used for his invention was already known — he remains the acknowledged inventor of [...]
Nov. 2, 1895: Cars Can’t Get to First Gasoline Race
November 2nd, 2009 |
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1895: The first U.S. race for gasoline-powered cars has to be postponed. The vehicles couldn’t get to the starting line. Within the month, though, they’re going to make some history.
Racing started out when cars started out. The legend is that the first car race happened the first time one horseless carriage met another on the [...]