Today in History – April 15, 1912 – The Titanic sinks after colliding with a massive iceberg three hours earlier. There were over 2,200 passengers and crew aboard for her maiden voyage from England to the United States. Only 705 survived. At the time of her construction it was the largest ship every built and [...]

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Today in History – April 10, 1662 – Robert Hooke’s first publication – a pamphlet on capillary action, to the Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning. The Society had been constituted, to promote experimental philosophy, by at a meeting of a dozen scientists in Gresham College on 28 Nov 1660. The Society subsequently [...]

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Today in History – January 13, 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile. The plastic car Ford patented used soy-based plastics and was 25% to 33% lighter than conventional cars of his day. Ford’s dream was to use agricultural-based plastics to provide another market for farmers to sell their crops. Sustainability in design is [...]

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Today in History – December 16, 1915 – Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity. General Theory of relativity is a theory of gravity. Ninety-one years ago on this day he published his mathematical formula for the theory of relativity. The theory introduced the famous concept of gravitation and inertia equivalence, which in turns [...]

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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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