In 1858, Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti outlined the world’s first 24-zone time system—decades before Greenwich set the global clock ...
Hawley Harvey Crippen was a homoeopath, ear and eye specialist and a medicine dispenser from the United States. His life ended in a rather unconventional manner, in 1910, Dr. Crippen was hanged in ...
The word 'broadcasting' dates back centuries, and originally described a method of sowing seeds. But it took on a new meaning ...
On Oct. 9, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone call to his assistant a few miles away — the first demonstration of ...
The Central Coast Railroad Festival will take place Oct. 3-5 to celebrate the rich history of trains and tracks on the Central Coast.
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Abstract: Francisco Salva Campillo read in December 16th, 1795 before the Academy of Sciences in Barcelona the paper "On the application of electricity to telegraphy". This is probably one of the ...
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