Aviation
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Reaching the Edge of Outer Space – the X-15 Rocket Space Plane
On October 3, 1967, the X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of Mach 6.7, which is 7,274 km/h (4,520…
Broadcasting
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David Attenborough and Life on Planet Earth
On May 8, 1926, English broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Frederick Attenborough was born. He is best known for writing…
Cinematography
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The Most Famous Duck in the World
On June 9, 1934, Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies cartoon The Wise Little Hen premiered, which featured the the debut of Donald Duck,…
Computer Games
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The Triumph of the Game Boy
On April 21, 1989, Nintendo presented the 8-bit handheld video game device called Game Boy, the first handheld console. The Game…
Engineering
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Vannoccio Biringuccio and the Art of Metalworking
Probably on October 20, 1480, Italian matallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio was born. He is best known for his manual on metalworking,…
Inventor
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Robert Bosch – Inventor for Life
On March 12 1942, Robert Bosch passed away. Robert Bosch was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, and founder of…
Photography
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Man Ray and The Dadaistic Art of Photography
On August 27, 1890, American modernist artist and photographer Emmanuel Radnitzky was born, better known as Man Ray. A significant…
Printing
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Ottmar Mergenthaler – a Second Gutenberg
On July 3, 1886, the first Linotype machine invented by German inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler commenced operation for the New York…
Space
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Luna 3 and the First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon
On October 7, 1959, Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 for the very first time photographed the far side of the Moon. Though…
Transportation
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Mixing Up a Plane with a Train – Franz Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin
On 21 June 1931, Franz Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin (rail zeppelin) set a new world railway speed record of 230.2 km/h (143.0 mph)…
Women in Technology
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
On May 10, 1900, British–American astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin was born. She was the first to apply laws…
