On this day in engineering history, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the existence of "island universes" beyond Earth's Milky Way galaxy. A man of many talents, Hubble had studied mathematics at Chicago and jurisprudence at Oxford before abandoning a budding legal career to turn
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