Daily Archives for 1 September 2014


September 1: Phineas Gage Injured

On 13 September 1848, Phineas Gage was working on a railroad-blasting site in Vermont. The job of Gage and his crew was to drill holes in the rocks blocking the construction path, fill the gap with dynamite, and blast the rocks apart for the railways to come through. Once the explosives were packed into the […]