[Worldkings – Wowtimes - Almanac Events & Achievements 2022] Highlights during 44 years of development of CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping company (1978)
15-08-2022
(worldkings.org) CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company.
WCSA - On This Day - August 15, 2022 - The first U.S. patent for a dental chair was issued to M.W. Hanchett in 1848
15-08-2022
(wcsa.world) Dental chair have been around since 1848. They are used daily as a chair for a patient to be comfortable while they are at the Dentist.
WCSA - On This Day - August 14, 2022 - The first Japanese patent was issued to Zuisho Hotta for his formulation of an antifouling paint for ship hulls in 1885
14-08-2022
(wcsa.world) On August 14, 1885, the first Japanese patent was issued. It was to Zuisho Hotta for his formulation of an anticorrosive paint for ship hulls.
WCSA – On This Day – August 13, 2022 - The first true stainless steel was cast in Sheffield, England in 1913
13-08-2022
(Worldkings.org) Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) was an English metallurgist, usually credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel" in the anglophone world).
WCSA - On This Day - August 11, 2022 - The first U.S. patent for instant coffee was issued to Satori Kato in 1903
11-08-2022
(Worldkings.org) A Japanese chemist living in Chicago receives the first U.S. patent for instant coffee. Hundreds of millions of caffeine-craving addicts will rue the day, but others have no grounds for complaint.
WCSA - On This Day - August 09, 2022 - Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete, in 1173
09-08-2022
(wcsa.world) To show the world just how important the city was, the people of Pisa decided to build a great cathedral complex, the Field of Miracles. The plan included a cathedral, a baptistery, a bell tower (Tower of Pisa) and a cemetery. The construction of the leaning tower of Pisa began in august 1173, but was interrupted several times by wars, debt and while engineers worked on solutions to correct the lean. Probably without these interruptions that allowed the soil to compress under the tower, it would have toppled over. Pisa Tower was eventually completed in the mid-1300s.
WCSA - On This Day - August 10, 2022 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid in 1675
08-08-2022
(wcsa.world) The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames. It played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known for the fact that the prime meridian passes through it, and thereby gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time. The ROG has the IAU observatory code of 000, the first in the list. ROG, the National Maritime Museum, the Queen's House and Cutty Sark are collectively designated Royal Museums Greenwich.
WCSA - On This Day - August 08, 2022 - Wilbur Wright makes 1st public flight in 1908
08-08-2022
(wcsa.world) On August 8, 1908, the Wright brothers showed off their flying machine in its first public flight, five years after their first successful flight in 1903.
[Wcsa - Wowtimes - Almanac Events & Achievements 2022] The milestones that make up the 136-year history of building Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore chain in the United States (1886)
07-08-2022
(wcsa.world) Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U.S. states. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores.
WCSA - On This Day - August 07, 2022 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan in 1955
07-08-2022
(wcsa.world) In September 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in the bomb-damaged Shirokiya department store building in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his wartime research colleague, Akio Morita, and on May, 7 1946, they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo TelecommunicationsEngineering Corporation). The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G.
