Thursday, November 25, 2010

Today 25 November in Business History

1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1834 Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1884 John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk
1983 World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed

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