This Day in Geek History: July 19
Elliptical Machines | July 19, 2009
1843 The first iron hulled, propeller driven steamship, the SS Great Britain , is launched 1912 A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately sixteen thousand pieces of debris to rain down on the town. 1950 NASA attempts the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral . The rocket is a German V-2 with a 320kg Army-JPL Wac Corporal sounding rocket . Launch is scrubbed first due to the emergency l