1872- Cyrus Baldwin patents the Hydraulic electric elevator
This Day in History
1967- Construction began on the Calgary Tower, a $3.5-million-dollar project in Alberta, Canada.
1745- Inventor of the battery, Alessandro Volta, is born.
1817- Gas is used for the first time to light a city in the United States (Baltimore).
1881- The Canadian Pacific Railway Company is incorporated.
1848- the Caledonian Railway Company opens
1983- Trump Tower in New York City opens for the first time.
1822- Jeremiah Bailey is issued the U.S. patent for the grass mowing machine.
1879- North America’s first artificial ice rink is built at Madison Square Gardens in New York, New York.
2008- the Smaratorg Tower, the tallest building in Iceland, opens.