1911: A Curtiss biplane becomes the first airplane to perform a landing on a ship.
The plane, piloted by Eugene Ely, landed on a platform bolted to the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania moored in San Francisco Bay. Ely had been flying for less than a year when approached by the U.S. Navy, which was interested in [...]
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Jan. 18, 1911: Clear the Deck
January 18th, 2011 |
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30 Historical Figures Recreated in Lego
June 28th, 2010 |
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If you thought a star on Hollywood Boulevard or being on the cover of Vogue was a sign of celebrity status, think again. The new benchmark is whether you’ve been recreated in Lego yet.
Feb, 11, 1939: Lise Meitner, ‘Our Madame Curie’
February 11th, 2010 |
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1939: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner publishes her discovery that atomic nuclei split during some uranium reactions. Her research will be overlooked by the Nobel committee when it awards a prize for the work.
Meitner is a prominent example of a woman whose gender put her in the back seat when the top prize was given. [...]
Jan. 21, 1911: All Roads Lead to Monte Carlo … Rally
January 21st, 2010 |
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1911: The first Monte Carlo Automobile Rally is held. Twenty-three cars starting out from 11 different locations around Europe eventually converge on the tiny Principality of Monaco.
The event, officially the Rallye Monte Carlo, was organized at the behest of Prince Albert I (great-grandfather of current Prince Albert II and grandfather of Prince Rainier III, [...]
Dec. 21, 1898: The Curies Discover Radium
December 21st, 2009 |
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1898: Radium is discovered by the husband-and-wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie.
Sorbonne-bred physicist Pierre Curie had been noodling with crystals and magnetism since the early 1880s. He was a professor at the School of Physics in Paris when one of his students, Marie Sklodowska, caught his eye. They wed in 1895, and theirs was [...]
Sept. 17, 1911: First Transcontinental Flight Takes Weeks
September 17th, 2009 |
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1911: Pilot Cal Rodgers takes off from New York City and begins the first transcontinental flight across the United States. He hopes to win a $50,000 prize by completing the trip in 30 days, but the inexperienced pilot has little idea of what such a trip will actually entail.
Powered airplanes had been flying for only [...]