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Posted on August 12, 2019 by Chris Enss

1877 – Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders.

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Posted on August 5, 2019 by Chris Enss

1914 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio

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1928 – Test footage first created for Walt Disney‘s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse

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1832 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass

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1959 – Ed Wood’s cult classic “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, called one of the worse films ever, premieres

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1860 – 1st railroad reaches Kansas

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1942 – Actress Lana Turner marries actor Stephen Crane (annulled)

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1909 – Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs

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1866 – Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts

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1954 – KMOX (now KMOV) TV channel 4 in Saint Louis, MO (CBS) 1st broadcast

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