Today in History – November 27, 1895 – The first gasoline-powered automobile race in the United States. The Duryea brothers - Charles and Frank - created their first gasoline-powered “horseless-carriage” in 1893. The Duryeas were bicycle mechanics who built their first car in a workshop located in a building in downtown Springfield, MA. in […]

Today in History – November 14, 1985 – Fullerenes were first introduced in the journal Nature,. Earlier in September during 11 days of collaborative research, Robert F. Curl, Jr., Richard Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto discovered the first fullerene, C60, a spherical cluster of carbon atoms. The discovery was coined buckminsterfullerenes or buckyballs after […]

Durham, NC – November 10, 2007 –Dr. Robert M. Panoff, president and executive director of Shodor, a Durham, NC nonprofit serving students and educators nationwide, is being honored today by a computational science award given in his name at the Education Program of SCO7, an international conference for high performance computing being held in Reno, […]

The Engineering Pathway is creating a “Today in History” database of engineering and technology events for every day of the year. Currently, the “Today in History” events are displayed in the news area under the left navigation. As most days have more than one event – only one is randomly displayed with each refresh. Where […]