March 5, 1904: Tesla’s Having a Ball
1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.” Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical shape that, unlike...
View ArticleJuly 9–10, 1856: Visionary Tesla Born at Midnight
1856: Scientific genius and visionary inventor Nikola Tesla is born at the stroke of midnight in the unassuming village of Smiljan, in what’s now Croatia. He wastes little time in revolutionizing the...
View ArticleNov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public
1905: Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed. Guglielmo Marconi’s famous wireless...
View ArticleMarch 5, 1872: Westinghouse Gives Railroads a Brake
Prolific inventor George Westinghouse Jr. designs a safe and reliable automatic brake to stop trains right in their tracks.
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