Posted in White History on Nov 30th, 2010
2009 The European Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, successfully accelerated the machine’s twin beams of protons to a record 1.18 trillion electron volts. 1934 The “Flying Scotsman” locomotive became the first locomotive to reach a speed of 100 miles per hour. 1924 The first photographs sent by radio across the Atlantic were [...]
Posted in White History on Nov 29th, 2010
1965 Canada launched the Alouette 2 research satellite into orbit. It was designed to explore the ionosphere. 1961 NASA launched Mercury-Atlas 5 with Enos the Chimp, a chimpanzee, aboard. It was considered a necessary preliminary checkout of the entire Mercury program before risking a human astronaut. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down [...]
Posted in White History on Nov 28th, 2010
1964 NASA launched the unmanned Mariner 4 spacecraft from Cape Kennedy, Florida. It performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. 1837 American inventor John Wesley Hyatt was born in Starkey, New York. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid, the first industrial [...]
Posted in White History on Nov 27th, 2010
2005 French surgeon Jean-Michel Dubernard performed the world’s first partial face transplant on a living human. 1857 English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington was born in London. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932 for “discoveries regarding the functions of neurons”. 1701 Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius [...]
Posted in White History on Nov 26th, 2010
1966 The Rance tidal power plant, located on the estuary of the Rance River, in Brittany, France, was officially opened by President Charles de Gaulle. It was the world’s first electrical generating station powered by tidal energy. 1965 Astérix, the first French satellite, was launched into orbit on a Diamant-A rocket. 1876 American engineer and [...]