by qdmhistory | Jan 11, 2022 | Popular
On January 11 in 1838, the modern world was invented. Or, at least, the invention that would give rise to the modern world was demonstrated for the first time. This invention, the telegraph, made the world a smaller, more connected place. For the first time in human...
by qdmhistory | Jan 10, 2022 | Popular
Napoleon Bonaparte was married twice. His first wife was Josephine de Beauharnais, while his second wife was Marie-Louise of Austria. However, Napoleon didn’t get remarried because Josephine had died. Instead, the two had a divorce on January 10 of 1810, which...
by qdmhistory | Jan 9, 2022 | Popular
Many people know Ted Williams, the baseball legend and one of the greatest hitters of all time. Not as many people know Ted Williams, the military hero. Yet, during World War II, he proved that baseball wasn’t his only strong suit. That’s why, on January...
by qdmhistory | Jan 8, 2022 | Popular
It is very common for governments to borrow money. After all, governments can run into a wide range of emergencies that become more manageable through more spending. As such, the concept of a national debt isn’t exactly a modern invention. In the case of the...
by qdmhistory | Jan 7, 2022 | Popular
On January 7th, 1714, a patent was filed by Henry Mill, an English inventor who worked as a waterworks engineer for a device “for impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another, so neat and exact as not to be distinguished from...
by qdmhistory | Jan 6, 2022 | Popular
The first iteration of what would later become the electric telegraph was created by Samuel Morse in 1838. Shortly after the prototype’s invention, which used only a single wire, Samuel Morse demonstrated the new technology Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New...
