Today in History – December 15, 1939 – First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn. Wallace Hume Carothers led a team of researchers at DuPont to develop the world’s first totally synthetic fiber. Dupont turned their experimental laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware into a full-fledged industrial process and industry. Before the invention of nylon became a name [...]

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Today in History – December 8, 1968 – Doug Engelbart’s “Mother of all Demos” introduces the computer mouse, hyperlinks and window at a demonstration in San Francisco. The demonstration offered a peek at the future of computing. “No one has ever before or since seen such a collection of great ideas in one demonstration,” said [...]

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Today in History – November 27, 1895 – The first gasoline-powered automobile race in the United States. The Duryea brothers – Charles and Frank – created their first gasoline-powered “horseless-carriage” in 1893. The Duryeas were bicycle mechanics who built their first car in a workshop located in a building in downtown Springfield, MA. in September [...]

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Today in History – November 15, 1968 – Yale announces its plans to open its undergraduate programs to female students beginning in 1969. Today, women make up over 50% of Yale’s undergraduate population and there is talk in many private schools and liberal arts colleges – where there is a 60-40% split in favor of [...]

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Today in History – November 5, 1895 – George B. Selden files the first U.S. patent for an automobile. Although Ford, Daimler, Duryea, Cugnot are all names that people associate with the invention of the automobile, it was actually patent attorney George Selden of Rochester, New York who first filed a patent on the “Road [...]

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