Profile America: Making Waves
On this date in 1955, the first consumer microwave oven models were introduced, but they required installation and cost $1,200.
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Profile America: The Open Road
The nation’s first limited access, divided superhighway opened this month 76 years ago — the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Profile America: National Seafood Month
Sunday, October 23 — October is National Seafood Month, celebrating a nutrient-rich food that is a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals. Because it really does turn out to be brain food, government and health organizations recommend eating two seafood […]
Profile America: The First of Billions of Copies
Saturday, October 22 — . “10 – 22 – 38 Astoria.” That cryptic sequence indicating date and place was the very first photocopied image, created on this date in 1938 in Astoria, New York. A man named Chester Carlson developed a […]
Profile America: Shedding Light
Friday, October 21 — An invention was demonstrated on this date in 1879 that lit the way for a dramatic change in the rhythm of Americans’ daily lives. At his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory, Thomas Edison set up the first […]
Profile America: American Cheese Month
Thursday, October 20 — October is American Cheese Month, a celebration of the many varieties of the dairy product. America is the world’s cheese superpower, producing about a quarter of the world’s supply. The nations of the European Union combine to […]
Profile America: Wind Turbine Power
Wednesday, October 19 —. Throughout the decades since the oil embargo of 1973, increasing research and development has gone into renewable sources of energy. Some of the results are seen atop windswept hills and plains across America — large electricity […]
Profile America: Summing It Up — The Adding Machine
Tuesday, October 18 — One of the foundations of modern business and science — the accessibility of accurate calculations — was reinforced this month in 1887. That’s when a patent was granted to […]
Profile America: National Chemistry Week
Monday, October 17 — Today is the second day of National Chemistry Week, an annual event held to raise public awareness of chemistry in the modern world. Coordinated by the American Chemical Society, the effort involves businesses, schools, and individuals in […]
Profile America: First Department Store
Sunday, October 16 — Today marks an anniversary that should please America’s power shoppers. On this date in 1868, the first full-line department store in the U.S. was organized in Salt Lake City. Called “Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution,” it opened […]
Profile America: Hispanic Origins
Saturday, October 15 — National Hispanic Heritage Month winds up today. The annual commemoration, beginning every September 15, can often treat Hispanics as a single, undifferentiated population. But the roughly 53-million Hispanic residents in America hail from a great variety of […]
Profile America: Detergent Cleaning Power
Monday, October 10 — Something that we all take for granted made its appearance on this date in 1933, when the first household detergent — named Dreft, and still in production — went on sale. The chemistry of making soap had […]
Profile America: Women’s Prison
Sunday, October 9 — On this date in 1873, a sturdy and somber-looking building opened its doors to admit 17 long-term residents. Then it promptly closed and locked those doors. With the opening of the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and […]
Profile America: College Football’s Greatest Rout
Friday, October 7 — This date a century ago was a football Saturday for many of the 92 U.S. colleges with active programs. It was also game day for small Cumberland College of Lebanon, Tennessee, which dropped its football team after […]
Profile America: Crunching October Numbers
Thursday, October 6 — October is a special month in the history of handling data. In Thursday, October 6th. October is a special month in the history of handling data. In a month that holds the anniversaries of the first […]
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