Happenings
       - what happened on a week in the past

* * HISTORY THIS WEEK (SARC News 20-07-2007)

1829   First typewriter was patented by William Burt of Mt. Vernon, MI.
1837   London's first railway station, Euston, opens.
1837   Wheatstone & Cooke send their first telegraph message 2 km.
1847   R. M. Hoe, New York City patented the rotary-type printing press.
1866   Dr M Loomis transmits signals 15 miles using kite antennas.
1866   After a dozen years, Cyrus Field successfully completed the trans-Atlantic Cable.
1871   S. Wheeler of Albany, NY patented perforated toilet paper.
1897   Marconi registers the "Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company".
1898   First newspaper message sent by radio from a ship to the Daily Express, London.
1899   Royal Navy successfully trials Marconi sets during exercises.
1969   Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface of the moon.

de John Alcorn, VK2JWA, for SARC.