Science and Space History
Discoveries, missions and the people who made them, from early observatories to the space age.
1891
1891 · Film & TV
Edison’s laboratory demonstrates a prototype Kinetoscope
May 20, 18911889
1889 · Technology
A Coin-Operated Phonograph Debuts in San Francisco
November 23, 18891886
1886 · Technology
Karl Benz files his motor-car patent
January 29, 18861885
1885 · Technology
Japan grants its first patent under the new system
August 14, 18851879
1879 · Technology
Edison Publicly Demonstrates Electric Lighting at Menlo Park
December 31, 18791878
1878 · Technology
Thomas Edison receives a phonograph patent
February 19, 18781873
1873 · Technology
Davis and Strauss patent riveted work clothing
May 20, 18731870
1870 · War & Conflict
Prussian troops block the French at Mars-la-Tour
August 16, 18701869
1869 · Science
Nature Publishes Its First Issue
November 4, 18691868
1868 · Technology
Sholes and collaborators receive a typewriter patent
June 23, 18681861
1861 · Technology
A Telegraph Line Connects the American Coasts
October 24, 18611859
1859 · Science