Thomas Edison exhibits a replica of his first successful incandescent lamp @facethenation

In 1878, Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp

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By creating a vacuum inside the bulb, finding the right filament to use, and running lower voltage through the bulb, Edison was able to achieve 💡 that lasted for many hours in 1880

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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to walk in space when he spent 12 minutes outside his Voskhod 2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965 @facethenation

Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the ship. He took a huge risk by lowering the suit's pressure in order to get back

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The heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali in action vs Zora Folley during fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 1967 @facethenation

Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Zora Folley

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Pablo Picasso lived in the small town of Vallauris on the French Riviera from 1948 to 1955. He bought and transformed Le Fournas, a former perfumery in Vallauris, into his studio @facethenation

Pablo Picasso 👨‍🎨 making a charcoal drawing of the view from Le Fournas on June 26, 1953

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Project Excelsior was a series of parachute jumps made by Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force in 1959 and 1960 from helium balloons in the stratosphere.

The third and final test, Excelsior III, was made on August 16, 1960. Kittinger stood 19.5 miles (31.4 km) above the surface of the earth. Because the right hand glove of his pressurized suit had malfunctioned, his hand had swollen to twice its size. He decided not to inform the ground crew about this, in case they should decide to abort the test.

Kittinger stayed at peak altitude for 12 minutes, waiting for the balloon to drift over the landing target area. He then stepped out of the gondola to begin his descent. Within seconds his body accelerated to over 700 mph (1127 km/h) in the thin air.

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Joseph Kittinger's freefall 😱

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Philo Farnsworth adjusts a television camera during a demonstration of his television system at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on August 28, 1934 @facethenation

Philo Farnsworth, one of the pioneers of electronic television, invented a special type of electron tube for use as a camera tube or imaging tube in television systems

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The legendary "flying goal" scored by Bobby Orr in 1970 @facethenation

🏒 Upon scoring, Bobby Orr was accidentally tripped by Blues defenceman Noel Picard, creating Orr's famous flying goal pose

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Francis Chichester on board ⛵️ Gipsy Moth IV during his historic, single-handed round the world voyage @facethenation

Francis Chichester, adventurer who in 1966 — 1967 sailed around the world alone in a 55-foot (17 meters) sailing boat, the Gipsy Moth IV.

He had single-handedly sailed the same path as the speedy 19th-century sailing ships with 20-strong crews that plied their trade between Europe and the Far East, with a stopover in Australia. Sailing the length of the Atlantic Ocean south across the equator, rounding the Cape of Good Hope and circumnavigating much of the Southern Ocean past Cape Horn, for a return leg northwards along the Atlantic, was the fastest and most direct way between the major continents by sea before the Suez and Panama Canals were built. And, even today, it remains the most risky and adventurous, exposed to the fiercest elements and long tracts of treacherous open sea, far from land and rescue — despite the huge progress in communications technology, navigation, boat building and safety, including the advent of satellites, since Gipsy Moth IV's voyage.

29.600 miles (47.600 kilometres) in 226 days sailing time. Fastest voyage around the world by any small boat.

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Franz Reichelt in his parachute suit 🐥 @facethenation

Franz Reichelt designed the first portable parachute, which however failed him when he tried throwing himself from the Eiffel Tower in 1912

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First (and last) attempt to test his new parachute

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