Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver Canadian P.L. Robertson, though he was not the first person to patent the idea of socket-head screws, was the first to successfully commercialize them, starting in 1908. Socket screws rapidly grew in popularity, and are still used for their resistance to wear and tear, compatibility with hex …
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Jan 05 2021
Cartnoon
Clearly all this dog wanted to do was play Dog Interrupts Soccer Match in Bolivia Paws the Game: A dog ran onto a soccer field during a match in Bolivia. The game had to stop for a few minutes before a player was able to pick up the dog and carry it off the field …
Jan 04 2021
Cartnoon
There are Twelve Days of Christmas. Little Christmas is still 2 days away, January 6. So keeping with the spirit, here is the Forgotten History of the Christmas Tree from the History Guy. The history of the Christmas tree is rather interesting, being both surprisingly ancient, and surprisingly new, with a host of different traditions, …
Jan 01 2021
Blasts from the Past
Posted by ek hornbeck on 1.1.2020. Re-posted by TMC for ek. My YouTube turns up odd things and I’m trying to drive the Klansmen and Neo Nazis who’ve infected it off my History feed. I try and vet for the most part, but I can’t be expected to examine the whole ouvre and what can …
Dec 30 2020
Cartnoon
The Gadsden Pauchase The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande where …
Dec 28 2020
Cartnoon
Posted by ek hornbeck on 12/28/2019. Re-posted by TMC for ek. File under Clio. We are accustomed to regard Athens as a paradigm of Democracy and a center of Philosophy and Science, especially in contrast with Sparta which is widely and correctly considered a militaristic slave holding society of sadism and cruelty. Given this sympathy …