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On September 25, 1926, Henry Ford announced an 8-hour, 5-day work week. The regulation of working hours was the first brick in the construction of the labor law.
On September 25, 1820, the French physicist, mathematician and chemist André-Marie Ampere demonstrated an experiment on the interaction between magnetic fields arising around electric currents to the Academy of Sciences.
On January 12, 1938, Wilhelm König, an Austrian archaeologist, found an unusual object while excavating near Baghdad. It was a light clay vessel about 15 cm high. The vessel had a copper cylinder inside containing a fully oxidized iron rod fixed with a bitumen plug. The upper end of the rod rising 1 cm above the plug was covered with a greyish completely oxidized layer of metal which reminded lead...
On November 30, in 1876, Pavel Yablochkov received the world’s first patent for his electric candle – considered a first-ever application of the transformer.
Johann Philipp Reis, a German physicist and inventor, believed that electricity can be transmitted at a distance, like light, without material conductors, and set up several experiments on his theory. The idea of transmitting sound using electricity was born when Reis studied the organs of hearing...
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This universal gadget converts 10 types of measurement units: Length, Weight, Temperature, Volume, Area, Speed, Time, Pressure and Energy.
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