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Jan. 10, 1863: Take the Tube
1863: London inaugurates the world’s first subway service. Approximately 40,000 Londoners ride the trains the first day. The original line ran from Paddington Station to Farringdon Street, via Edgware...
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Feb. 3, 1958: Silent Spring Seeks Its Voice
1958: Science writer Rachel Carson writes to The New Yorker editor E.B. White suggesting that he write an article about the danger of pesticides. White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the...
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March 10, 1876: ‘Mr. Watson, Come Here …’
1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room. The Scottish-born Bell had a lifelong interest in the...
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April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world’s richest people. Gates and Allen had been...
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May 23, 1962: Give That Kid a Hand!
1962: A team of 12 doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reattaches the severed arm of an injured boy. It is the first successful reattachment of a human limb. Freckle-faced Everett “Red”...
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May 24, 1935: Reds Nip Phils as Night Baseball Comes to the Major Leagues
1935: The first night major league baseball game is played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Crosley Field, built in the same era as Boston’s Fenway Park and Chicago’s Wrigley Field, was smaller than...
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June 27, 1898: Down to the Sea in Ships, and Then Some
1898: Joshua Slocum completes a solo voyage lasting nearly three years, becoming the first sailor to circumnavigate alone. Slocum, born within sight of Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy in 1844, ran away from...
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Aug. 25, 1973: More Than One Way to Slice a CAT
The CT scan goes into use in the United States. Lives will be saved. Originally known as a CAT scan -- for computed (or computerized) axial tomography, or computer-aided (or assisted) tomography -- the...
View ArticleSept. 2, 1859: Telegraphs Run on Electric Air in Crazy Magnetic Storm
1859: A magnetic explosion on the sun causes bright auroras on Earth and upends the the fledgling telegraph network. On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30...
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Oct. 12, 1928: Iron Lung, Savior to a Generation
The iron lung arrives just as there's a spike in poliomyelitis cases, a disease that could affect its victim's ability to breathe normally. Talk about good timing.
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