The Great Geek Manual

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

- “Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” by Nikola Tesla
First published in Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934.

1848
First railway bookstall is opened at the Euston station, in London by W.H. Smith.

1879
Thomas Edison patents the electric lamp.

1884
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is adopted universally at a meeting of the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC. The International Date Line is then drawn up and the twenty-four time zones are created.

1887
Eleven years after the phone was invented, the first differentiation between day and night long distance rates goes into effect, with night rates in most, but not all, instances lower than day rates.
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