June 1, 1880: The first pay telephone for public use (in the U.S.) went into service.
June 1, 1947: The development of photosensitive glass was announced in Corning, N.Y. (IRI Member Company)
June 2, 1928: Kraft's Velveeta Cheese was invented (IRI Member Company)
June 4, 1937: The first shopping carts were introduced at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma City, invented by the store owner Sylvan Goldman.
June 6, 1911: IBM founded. The company was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation. (IRI Member Company)
June 7, 1954: The first U.S. laboratory exclusively built for studies in microbiology was dedicated in New Brunswick, N.J., as part of Rutgers University.
June 8, 1992: The U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development was created as one of the most important accomplishments of the International Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Argentina.
June 8, 1637: René Descartes' book Discourse on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, swept aside ancient and medieval traditions of philosophical methods and investigation.
June 10, 1752: Benjamin Franklin flies kite during thunderstorm.
June 10, 1932: Artificial lightning using 10 million volts of electricity was demonstrated in the U.S. by the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Mass. This was twice the previous maximum voltage produced in a laboratory. (IRI Member Company)
June 10, 1952: Mylar® was registered as a DuPont trademark for an extraordinarily strong polyester film that grew out of the development of Dacron® in the early 1950s. (IRI Member Company)
June 16, 1844: Charles Goodyear received another patent for "An Improvement in India-Rubber Fabrics." (IRI Member Company)
June 16, 1884: The first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.
June 16, 1903: Pepsi-Cola Co. registered the Pepsi-Cola trademark with the U.S. Patent Office (IRI Member Compay).
June 21, 1961: The first practical plant for the conversion of seawater to drinking water was built by the Dow Chemical Company (IRI Member Company).
June 23, 1964: Arthur Melin obtained a patent for the hula-hoop.
June 25, 1783: Antonie Lavoisier announced to the French Academy of Sciences that water was the product formed by the combination of hydrogen and oxygen.
June 28, 1953: Workers assemble first Corvette in Flint, Michigan (GM, IRI Member Company)
June 29, 1995: The American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
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