Timeline of United States discoveries 4–6, 1942 and the decisive turning point of the Pacific War when the United States Navy defeated an attack by the Empire of Japan. First known as "Middlebrooks Islands", Midway Atoll was discovered by U.S. Captain N.C. Brooks aboard his ship, "Gambia", on July 8, 1859. 1859 Petroleum jelly Petroleum jelly, petrolatum or soft paraffin is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons originally promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. The raw material for petroleum jelly was discovered in 1859 by Robert Chesebrough, a chemist from New York. In 1870, this product was branded as Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. 1873
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro her sugar sculpture "A Subtlety." For the Criterion Collection, Jelly-Schapiro has contributed essays on classics of world cinema such as "Memories of Underdevelopment" and "Buena Vista Social Club". In 2018, he collaborated with the British artist Chris Ofili on the catalogue essay for Ofili's "Paradise Lost," a volume containing Ofili's photographs of the island of Trinidad, which is accompanied by Jelly-Schapiro's essay on the cultural history of chain-link fencing. Jelly-Schapiro lives in New York, where he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (born June 16, 1979) is an American geographer