Sunday, April 01, 2007

April 1

In spite of the bad rap it gets, April 1st must not be exclusively for fans of pranks because on that day in 1826, Samuel Morey patented the internal combustion engine, in 1854, Charles Dickens’ (pictured) book Hard Times began serialization in his magazine Household Words, and in 1857, Herman Melville published The Confidence-Man.

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