history Tuesday

On this day in 1968, a patent was granted to a fellow named Fred Schollhammer for a hand-held portable beam generator. We now know that portable beam generator today as a laser, which is an acronym for “Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.” Now, Mr. Schollhammer didn’t invent the laser, in fact there …

Since May is National Bike Month, we thought this would be a good opportunity to look into the history of a very important safety device—the bicycle helmet. Bicycles have been around since the 1860’s, when a machine known as the Velocipede came on the scene. But this bike wasn’t a big success due to its barrel-stave like …