Oregon aims for first state microbe
Oregon is attempting to designate the first state microbe, brewer’s yeast.
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Wright Brothers National Memorial – Resources
The first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine were made here by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903.
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Wright Brothers Photographs & Papers
The LIbrary of Congress has some amazing photographs, especially when it comes to historical events. The Wright Brothers flights are no exception.
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American History Landmarks in Michigan
Discover some of the more interesting American history landmarks in the state of Michigan, such as the One-Room Schoolhouse, The Edmund Fitzgerald (yes, the one from the Gordon Lightfoot song: The Legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald), and Fairlane – Henry Ford’s Estate.
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American History Landmarks in Massachusetts
Discover some of the more interesting American history landmarks in the state of Massachusetts, such as The African Meeting House, the oldest Black church edifice in the United States; the first email ever sent, the Emancipation Proclamation Pen, the Minute Man Historic Park, and the Norman Rockwell Museum.
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Frederick M. Jones
Frederick Jones received over 60 patents in his career. Forty of these patents were in the field of refrigeration.
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Meredith C. Gourdine
Dr. Gourdine pioneered the research of electrogasdynamics. He was responsible for the engineering technique termed Incineraid for aiding in the removal of smoke from buildings.
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Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard is given credit as being one of the fathers of modern rocketry. Though not given credit during his lifetime, he is now recognized as a significant modern scientist.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamn Franklin was a diplomat, politician, printer, and scientist. He invented bifocals, the Franklin stove, and experimented with electricity. Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Edison
mother decided to teach him at home. She gave him lots of books to read. Tom was a curious boy. He always wanted to know how things worked.
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Edwin Laurentine Drake
Edwin Laurentine Drake was born in 1819 in Greenville, New York. Drake is considered the petroleum entrepreneur of the oil industry. A former railroad conductor, his success was based on his belief that drilling was the best way to obtain petroleum from the earth.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an innovative man who revolutionized the automobile industry. Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Charlotte Maguire, M.D.
In 1944, when Charlotte Maguire earned her medical degree from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, women were not just an anomaly in medicine-they were unwelcome. Medical schools routinely rejected women applicants for no other reason than gender.
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Charles P. Ginsburg
Charles P. Ginsburg made a huge contribution to technology with his invention and development of video magnetic tape recording for instant playback.
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