Thomas Alva Edison with his cylinder phonograph in 1878.
Thomas Edison is known for his many inventions, but his favorite was the
phonograph which was created while working on improvements to the
telegraph and the telephone. He figured out a way to record sound on
tinfoil-coated cylinders with two needles, one for recording and one
for playback. His first words he recorded on the new machine were,
”Mary had a little lamb”.
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The chocolate chip cookie was invented by the American chef Ruth Graves Wakefield and chef Sue Brides in 1938. She invented the
recipe during the period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in
Whitman, Massachusetts.
Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977)
It is often incorrectly reported that the chocolate chip cookie was
an accident, and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to
melt making chocolate cookies. In reality, Wakefield stated that she
deliberately invented the cookie. She said, "We had been serving a
thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed
to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I
came up with Toll House cookie." (Wikipedia)
MIKE GRACIA
President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.
President Nixon (seated) and H.R. Haldeman.
It was on this day in 1995.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1964.
On this day in 1834, Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to
more than double their crop size.
On this day in 1982, a federal jury found John W. Hinckley Jr. not guilty of attempting to assassinate the president because he was legally insane at
the time he shot President Reagan and three others on March 30, 1981.
President Reagan waves, then looks up before being shoved (AP)
into Presidential limousine by Secret Service agents after
being shot outside a hotel in Washington in 1981.
ROSS SIMPSON
Samuel F.B. Morse formally opening America’s first telegraph line.
The four men convicted of bombing the New York’s World Trade
Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison on this day in
1994.
Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)
(May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901)
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until
1901. A national emblem of morality, she oversaw a great
period of expansion in the British Empire and had the longest
reign of any monarch (nearly sixty-four years) until Queen
Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015.
The Brooklyn Bridge on opening night, May 24, 1883. Photo from
Brooklyn Museum.
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) is 76 years old today.
Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized folk music in the 1960’s
with albums such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "Like
a Rolling Stone," and "Positively 4th Street." He changed his name to Dylan
after the poet Dylan Thomas. Bod Dylan was born into a Jewish family, but later
converted to Christianity.
