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Free Academy of the City of New York founded (later City College of New York). [21] [7] Madison Square Park and Astor Opera House open. Grace Church built. 1848 pencil drawing of a side and top view of a needlefish caught in New York, N.Y., drawn by Jacques Burkhardt. 1848 December: Cholera outbreak begins, its spread initially limited by ...
Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums – der Raketen-Motor (The Problem of Space Travel – The Rocket Motor) discusses space travel and its potential uses for scientific experiments. Germany Herman Potočnik: January 1933: British Interplanetary Society founded. UK Philip E. Cleator April 1933: First detection of radio waves from an ...
The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History (2005) online; Hood. Clifton. In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis (2016). Cover 1760–1970. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City.
This in turn led to a surge in culture. New York City became, once again, "the center for all things chic and trendy". [61] Hip-hop and rap music, led by New York City, became the most popular pop genre. Immigration to both the city and state rose. New York City, with a large gay and lesbian community, suffered many deaths from AIDS beginning ...
Manhattan contained over 500 million square feet (46.5 million m 2) of office space in 2018, [325] making New York City the largest office market in the world, [326] [327] while Midtown Manhattan, with 400 million square feet (37.2 million m 2) in 2018, [325] is the largest central business district in the world. [328]
The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300055366.; second edition 2010; Jackson, Kenneth T. and Roberts, Sam (eds.) The Almanac of New York City (2008) Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham (2012) Excerpt and text search; Lankevich, George J.
[5] Description of a space station in Hermann Noordung's The Problem of Space Travel (1929). At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, inspired by fiction by writers such as Jules Verne ( From the Earth to the Moon , Around the Moon ) and H.G. Wells ( The First Men in the ...
November 1995 – The Office of Commercial Space Transportation is transferred to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), becoming the FAA Associate Administrator for Space Transportation, or FAA/AST. [10] May 1996 – Creation of the Ansari X-Prize. 24 December 1997 – DigitalGlobe EarlyBird-1 becomes the first commercial Earth imaging ...