: Representatives from 25 nations met in Washington for the International Meridian Conference, officially establishing Greenwich, England, as the Prime Meridian and the standard for time-reckoning across the globe. Shadows of the Era
: In a grand ceremony in Paris on July 4, France formally presented the completed statue to the United States. : Representatives from 25 nations met in Washington
In May of 1884, a young Serbian-American inventor named stepped off a ship in New York with nothing but four cents in his pocket and a letter of recommendation for Thomas Edison. That same year, a fellow engineer named Robert Bosch was also boarding a ship for New York, dazzled by the 2,500 light bulbs he had seen illuminating a theater in Munich—a glow made possible by Edison’s patents. A Fateful Decision at Sea That same year, a fellow engineer named Robert