Events Date 1847 June | History by KabAstro

Jun 10 Chicago Tribune begins publishing

Bunsen Burner

Jun 14 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

First Photo of Lightning?

Jun 18 American photographer Thomas Martin Easterly takes the earliest known photograph of lightning using the daguerreotype process in St. Louis, Missouri [1]

Cabinet card photo of a daguerreotype by Thomas Martin Easterly, showing streaks of lightning

Jun 22 First ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory
Jun 27 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires

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