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Aug. 20, 1831: The Real Dr. Suess Comes to Life
Eduard Suess is born — not the Dr. Seuss of Whoville and Mount Crumpit fame, but geology professor Suess of Vienna and Gondwanaland.
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Sept. 15, 1884: Eyeing Cocaine as Local Anesthetic
1884: A medical breakthrough just four days old opens the eyes of ophthalmologists at a medical convention — cocaine works as a local anesthetic. “The cocaine business has indeed brought me much honor,...
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March 3, 1919: U.S. Starts International Airmail Service
1919: The United States starts international airmail delivery by flying 60 letters from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle. In the cockpit: Bill Boeing. In one sense, the earliest airmail was...
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Aug. 11, 1942: Actress + Piano Player = New Torpedo
Hedy Lamarr, once described by German actor-director Max Reinhardt as "the most beautiful woman in Europe," receives a U.S. patent for a frequency-hopping device designed to guide radio-controlled...
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