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Mar

THESE PAST EVENTS MADE TODAY’S HISTORY

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Mar

NEW INVENTION RECEIVED PATENT

Alexander Graham Bell: A Pioneer in Communication and Beyond

A 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell was granted U.S.
Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone on March 7, 1876.

The patent, often called the most valuable in U.S. history,
was filed on February 14, 1876—just hours before a similar
caveat by Elisha Gray—securing Bell the rights to the
invention.

Three days later, on March 10, 1876, Bell made the first
successful telephone call to his assistant…Thomas
Watson.

Alexander Graham Bell: The Invention of the Telephone

Bell Invents Telephone: 1876

Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone & Inventions | HISTORY

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May

POPULAR BEVERAGE WAS INVENTED IN 1886

Waithaka - American pharmacist John S. Pemberton created Coca-Cola, which he initially marketed as a cure-all tonic. Dr. John Stith Pemberton invented Coca-Cola on May 8, 1886, forever transforming the world's eating

On May 8, 1886, Dr. John Pemberton (above) brought his
perfected syrup to Jacobs’ Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta
where the first glass of Coca‑Cola was poured.

Initially, the drink was marketed as a medicinal tonic called
“French Wine Coca.”

Serving about nine drinks per day in its first year, Coca‑Cola
was an exciting new drink in the beginning.

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Apr

FIRST MOVIE PROJECTOR DEMONSTRATED

On April 21, 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway
and Gray, demonstrated their “Panopticon,” the first movie
projector developed in the United States.

Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States
for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films
could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box, not
projected to a large audience.

Brothers Grey and Otway Latham, the founders of a company
that produced and exhibited films of prize fights using the
Kinetoscope, called on their father, Woodville, and W.K.L.

Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Laboratory, to help them
develop a device that would project life-sized images onto a
screen in order to attract larger audiences.

April 21, 1895: First US Movie Projector – Loop Frees an Industry | This Day in Tech History

Today in History - History Uncored - Today in History: First Movie Projector Demonstrated! From History On April 21, 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the

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Apr

THE FIRST PORTABLE DEFIBRILLATOR

Frank Pantridge • LITFL • Medical Eponym Library

Dr. J. Frank Pantridge was a cardiologist at Royal Victoria
Hospital in Belfast. He knew that people who die from heart
attacks often do so within an hour of the attack. So in 1965,
Pantridge developed the first portable defibrillator and had
it installed in an ambulance.

His invention has helped paramedics around the world save
many lives.

Frank Pantridge | The BMJ