On this day (9 August) in history: 1173 - The building of the Tower of Piza begins. 1757 - Thomas Telford, Scottish engineer, is born. 1783 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia is born. 1797 - Charles Robert Malden, a British Naval officer, is born. 1803 - Robert Fulton tests his invention, the steam paddle-boat, in the River Seine, France. 1805 - Joseph Locke, an English railway and civil engineer, is born. 1819 - William Thomas Green Morton, a dentist who was the first man to use ether as an anaesthetic, is born. 1819 - Jonathan Homer Lane, an American astrophysicist who noted that the Sun was made of gas, is born. 1832 - King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria, Princess of Orléans. 1859 - Nathan Ames patents the escalator. 1891 - Thomas Edison patents a two-way telegram. 1898 - Rudolf Diesel has the diesel internal combustion engine patented. 1902 - Edward VII is crowned King. 1907 - The end of the first Scout camp held on Brownsea Island. 1914 - German submarine U-15 sinks the HMS Birmingham. 1914 - Tove Jansson, author of The Moomins, is born.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:23:13 +0000
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