Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. Ford spent most of his life making headlines, good, bad, but never indifferent. Celebrated as both a technological genius and a folk hero, Ford was the creative force behind an industry of unprecedented size and wealth that in only a few decades permanently changed the economic and social character of the United States. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
Federico Buffa (28 July 1959, Milan) is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.
He has studied sociology at UCLA Summer Session in 1978. He obtained his degree at University of Milan in 1986 (Law). In the same year he wrote his first article for Italian Magazine "Superbasket" (which has been published on September's Number). Two years later he began working as basketball agent and started his career as NBA's commentator for Italian TV. He still works as journalist for Sky Sport Italia and Milan Channel.
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison, New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures.
The Haunted Castle 1896 George Melies Silent Film
Blackfriars Bridge (1896)
Palestine : 1880 - 1896
Palestine 1896
London 1896
Victorian Age 1896. Milan, London, Paris, Venice and more (rare original footage)
The Election of 1896 Explained
1896 Henry Ford´s Quadricycle replica
Guayaquil - Incendio Grande de 1896
Classic 1992 LEGO Trauma Team set 1896 reviewed!
Vidéo rare d'alger 1896
The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-98
Athens 1896 Olympic Games
Olympic Games, Athens, 1896
The Haunted Castle 1896 George Melies Silent Film
Blackfriars Bridge (1896)
Palestine : 1880 - 1896
Palestine 1896
London 1896
Victorian Age 1896. Milan, London, Paris, Venice and more (rare original footage)
The Election of 1896 Explained
1896 Henry Ford´s Quadricycle replica
Guayaquil - Incendio Grande de 1896
Classic 1992 LEGO Trauma Team set 1896 reviewed!
Vidéo rare d'alger 1896
The Klondike Gold Rush: Photographs from 1896-98
Athens 1896 Olympic Games
Olympic Games, Athens, 1896
Budapest a századfordulón(1896) Budapest at the turn of the 20th century
Juegos Olimpicos modernos Atenas 1896.wmv
London Calling - Federico Buffa e Angelo Caruso - Atene 1896
The Devil's Castle (1896) - 1st Horror & Vampire Movie - GEORGES MELIES - Le Manoir du Diable house
African victory against colonisation : Battle of Adwa 1896 (Ethiopia)
עמוד האש, פרק 1, היעד -- ירושלים (1896-1917)
Thomas Edison: The Kiss (1896)
Louis & Auguste Lumière - L'arroseur arrose' - 1896
1896-1992 - High Jump - Olympic Story