Here is the Science Calendar…The Science that happened in this month…
July 1: 1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
July 2: 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
July 3: 1886 – Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent Motorwagen – the first purpose-built automobile.
July 4: 1054 – A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants forms the Crab Nebula.
July 6: 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
July 7: 1989 – Warner Brothers copyright registered “Batman,” a movie based on a popular cartoon character.
July 9: 1968 – US patent for the “Portable Beam Generator,” also known as a hand-held laser ray gun, was granted to inventor Frederick R. Schellhammer.
July 10: 1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communication satellite is launched into orbit.
July 14: 1965 – The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
July 15: 1985 – Aldus PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program, was first shipped for sale to consumers, invented by Paul Brainard.
July 16: 1878 – Thaddeus Hyatt was granted a patent for reinforced concrete.
July 17: 1962 – Nuclear testing – The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller 1 becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
July 20: 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
July 21: 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
July 22: 1873 – Louis Pasteur received a patent for the manufacture of beer and treatment of yeast, which would later influence his discovery of the process known as pasteurization.
July 25: 1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London.
July 27: 1921 – Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best first isolated insulin, and within a year, the first human sufferers of diabetes were receiving insulin treatments.
July 30: 1933 – The Monopoly board game was copyright registered, and Carles Darrow, the inventor, became the first millionaire game designer after he sold his patent to Parker Brothers.
-Team ScienceNow
