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It’s commonly accepted that Canada has a love affair with ice hockey. From pond hockey rinks to large indoor NHL arenas, Canadians

The First Presbyterian Church of Roselle, NJ, was selected by Thomas Edison in 1882 to be the first church to install and

In 1912, after years of experimentation with gases and tubes, lighting inventor and neon pioneer Georges Claude discovered the perfect commercial application

On the evening of August 30, 1983 the Space Shuttle Challenger and her crew thundered into the night sky as it left

Billed as "One Hot Night," the 1992 NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway was the first superspeedway race run at night,

Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass. His cathode

January 1780 The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aime Argand and was extremely unique at the time. His wick

The first lamp to use halogen gas (chlorine) was patented in 1882, but the first commercial halogen lamp that used iodine as

The Lite-Brite toy is one of the all-time most popular toys and was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in