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BLACK HISTORY MONTH SHARE: BLACK INVENTIVENESS
The inventions and designs of black people often go without universal recognition. https://www.biography.com/people/groups/black-inventors https://www.ucda.com/sin-of-omission/
HISTORIC PHOTO: FIRST PHOTO OF PEOPLE
Though not the intended subjects of the photograph above, the shoe shiner and his customer are reportedly the first people to appear in one. Though probably meant to be merely a view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, it was taken in 1838 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the first commercially successful photographic process, […]
HISTORIC INVENTION: LAWN MOWERS
Have older kids who hate mowing the lawn? Well, at least they don’t have to use a scythe, and for that they can thank Edwin Beard Bunting, an engineer from Gloucestershire, England. Bunting invented the lawn mower in 1830, after watching a cutting cylinder trim cloth in a cloth mill and realizing the same principle […]
MAKING HISTORY FUN: LEARN YOUR NAME IN MORSE CODE
.– …. .- – / …. .- – …. / –. — -.. / .– .-. — ..- –. …. – The Victorian era produced a number of inventions. The above marks mean: “what hath God wrought”, which was the message American inventor and painter, Samuel Morse, used in 1844 while demonstrating his telegraph device […]
Time Travelling With Kids 