2018-05-06 16:06
In 1911, Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky created the first painting that was purely abstract. Colorful swirls and lines covered the painting he called Picture with a Circle. Up until then… Read More
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2018-05-04 08:09
When plastic was introduced in 1907, it was the first completely synthetic material ever made. It was invented by Belgium chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland. Unlike natural materials such as wood… Read More
2018-05-01 08:05
Most people don’t know what E=mc² really means, but it’s still the best-known equation ever. German physicist Albert Einstein came up with it in 1905. E=mc² says the en… Read More
2018-04-30 07:10
There was great excitement when French developer Ferdinand de Lesseps began coordinating the building of the Panama Canal in 1881. De Lesseps had successfully completed the Suez Canal, and h… Read More
2018-04-27 06:54
Bone-chilling winds blew over the dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Nervously, American inventor Orville Wright made lastminute adjustments to the Flyer. Then he signaled to his brother… Read More
2018-04-26 06:41
It was just the letter “S” in Morse code, and it was hard to hear. But on December 12, 1901, that “S” was the first radio signal sent across the Atlantic Ocean, from… Read More
2018-04-26 06:29
The first time the world heard the word “television” was in 1900. Russian scientist Constantin Perskyi used it to talk about the technologies scientists were testing to try to tr… Read More
2018-04-24 06:23
When 24-year-old Maria Sklodowska left Poland for Paris in 1891, she never dreamed she’d one day win the highest award in the scientific world, the Nobel Prize, and not once but twice… Read More
2018-04-23 06:16
On November 8, 1895, German scientist Wilhelm Röntgen was shooting electricity through a tube filled with gas at very low pressure. The tube produced a fluorescent glow, as he expected… Read More
2018-04-22 06:12
It took many years and fierce determination for women to win the right to vote. For centuries, a woman’s job was to take care of her home and family. Men held political and economic po… Read More
2018-04-21 06:10
Once the internal combustion engine was invented, engineers began working on ways it could be used to power a carriage — a horseless carriage. German engineer Karl Benz began buil… Read More
2018-04-21 06:05
Once upon a time, every town ran on its own time. When you traveled between two places, even ones quite close together, you had to keep changing your watch to local time. For railroads, that… Read More
2018-03-24 16:38
Have you wondered Who made the first boombox A boombox is music player which is like transistor in size this makes it portable. It has one and sometimes two cassette type players, AM/FM radi… Read More
2018-03-07 16:52
Think of the Internet as the world’s biggest library – but instead of books, its shelves contain billions of individual web pages. In a library, you have an index to help you tra… Read More
2018-03-07 16:50
Many people think that the internet and the World Wide Web are the same things. While they are closely linked, they are two different things. The internet is a huge network of computers all… Read More
2018-03-07 16:47
Audio files in a normal compact disc can be very large. This is because information on a compact disc is stored in the form of binary digits. MP3 compression reduces the number of bits by ta… Read More
2018-03-07 16:42
A touchpad is a device for pointing on a computer display screen. It is an alternative to the mouse. It was invented by George E. Gerpheide in 1988. The touchpad is a flat area, located bene… Read More
2018-03-05 16:50
If you need to cut open the bunch of vegetables, or coffee sachet, or cut the package or make a craft. Which is one tool that will be commonly used in above-mentioned activities? Yes you are… Read More
2018-03-05 16:36
Have you wondered Who Invented Twix Candy Bars Why is a Twix called a Twix Chocolate candies made in shape of the bar containing soft butter cookies with soft caramel and milk chocolate cove… Read More
2018-03-03 16:54
Alexander Graham Bell may not have been the first person to come up with the idea of sending sound over a wire, but through persistence and ingenuity, he was the one that made it happen. And… Read More
2018-03-03 16:40
In 1876, German engineer Carl von Linde discovered a process for liquefying gas to make it cold. Later, he and other inventors figured out how to use the cooled gas to keep food cold. Up unt… Read More
2018-03-03 16:32
The world has always looked for ways to make transportation easier, safer and faster. The idea of a canal linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas was one such shortcut. It would allow ships t… Read More
2018-03-03 16:15
Gregor Mendel was a monk, or holy man, with a strong interest in science and a love of nature. In the monastery where he lived in Austria, he began to grow pea plants. Mendel wanted to creat… Read More
2018-02-23 14:33
Instant communication was in the air! Since the 1840s, people had been able to send telegrams over telegraph wires. But there was no way to send telegrams across the ocean. Messages had to b… Read More
2018-02-23 14:13
The next time you drink milk or nibble a slice of cheese, say thanks to Louis Pasteur. He came up with a way to make milk and cheese safe by pasteurizing them. Louis came from humble beginni… Read More
2018-02-15 16:05
Beginning in the early 1800s, inventors tried to create a smaller, more efficient engine than the steam engine. By Unknown – http://www.erft.de/schulen/gymlech/2004/Auto/lenoir.htm, Pu… Read More
2018-02-15 15:49
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he changed people’s ideas about nature. He said that species evolve (gradually change), creating new species, and that&r&hell…Read More
2018-02-07 16:29
In today’s world can you imagine a life without television? Have you ever wondered who invented mechanical television? Mechanical Television was invented by John Logie Baird in 1925. J… Read More
2018-02-03 09:56
Have you wondered: Who first invented homework when was homework was introduced It is a well-known fact that many students dislike homework. However for most of the students homework… Read More
2018-02-01 13:48
Have you wondered: When was the first bus made Who invented the bus Bus, is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers History of Bus Blaise Pascal, an inventor, first laun… Read More
2018-01-28 06:23
Steel wasn’t new — people had been making it for thousands of years. But steel was difficult and expensive to produce until an English engineer named Henry Bessemer changed that… Read More
2018-01-27 06:12
As a young woman, Florence Nightingale decided she wanted to help people by becoming a nurse. Although she was born to a wealthy family who encouraged learning, her parents didn’t appr… Read More
2018-01-27 05:49
Have you wondered when was synthetic fertilizer invented Dead fish, seaweed, manure — those are just a few things farmers had been putting on their fields for thousands of years to mak… Read More
2018-01-16 16:24
Do you know once upon a time cost of stapler was more than an average person’s monthly salary? In the year 1800, King Louis XV was looking for the better way to bind his document and t… Read More
2018-01-16 07:03
Have you wondered: who took the first photograph of a scenery who took the first photograph where was it taken and where is it on display now The First Photograph, or more specifically, the… Read More
2018-01-01 08:31
Have you wondered Who Invented The Game Basketball And In What Year where was he from Dr. James Naismith of Springfield, Massachusetts didn’t think that winter working in his of… Read More
2018-01-01 08:06
Have you wondered Who invented the spiral notebook? Spiral notebooks are used extensively by everyone. Even though there are a few people who would prefer to use mobile phones, laptop or iPa… Read More
2017-12-30 15:54
George Stephenson grew up in a coal mining village in England. His first job was to keep cows away from the coal wagons. Then he began working in the mines in a variety of jobs. When George… Read More
2017-12-30 15:42
Have you wondered who invented the Braille system for blind who invented braille script or lipi If you were blind in the early 1800s, you had no way to learn to read. That was the problem th… Read More
2017-12-27 15:35
Have you wondered When and Who invented the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine? In 1822, Charles Babbage noticed how many errors there were in calculations of star and planet p… Read More
2017-12-27 15:14
Do you have photos of people you admire on your wall? Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous scientist, did — and his pictures included Michael Faraday, the inventor of the ele… Read More
2017-12-20 15:04
Have you wondered who invented the first electric telegraph? who made the first electric telegraph? When was the first electric telegraph invented? Some inventors are looking for fame and fo… Read More
2017-12-20 14:48
How frustrating! To hear a patient’s heartbeat, a doctor had to put his ear against the patient’s chest. Even then, the sound was faint. And it was embarrassing for the patient … Read More
2017-12-20 14:38
French leader Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to conquer the world. But how could he feed his soldiers as they carried out his campaigns? The food they took with them went bad before they could ea… Read More
2017-12-20 14:17
Alessandro Volta was so fascinated by electricity that, as a student, he even wrote a poem about it. As an adult, he created an electric battery by putting moisture between zinc and copper d… Read More
2017-12-20 13:40
Two and a half thousand years ago, a small town in Italy was home to an extraordinary group of thinkers. They discovered facts about music and mathematics that we still use today, but more i… Read More
2017-12-17 13:01
In the 1700s, smallpox was often deadly. This very contagious disease was spread by a virus. It caused high fevers and a rash that left permanent scars. In some countries, smallpox killed on… Read More
2017-12-17 12:34
From the time he was six, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enthralled Europe with his piano performances and musical compositions. He played for wealthy and noble patrons, for other musicians and eve… Read More
2017-12-17 12:28
Revolution was in the air! Influenced by the American colonies’ revolt against unfair taxation and their fight for freedom and rights, the French people were ready to take on the arist… Read More
2017-12-17 01:02
It’s hard to believe, but the need for the steam engine started far below the Earth’s surface. In the late 1700s, England needed coal for fuel. The more coal people needed, the d… Read More
2017-12-16 16:57
How could a young man from a poor English family succeed in the late 1700s? By going to sea. If you were lucky, daring and smart, you might rise in the ranks. That’s what James Cook di… Read More
2017-12-16 15:35
Until the mid-1700s, most manufacturing took place in small workshops or in people’s homes. Then the steam engine came along and changed everything. Steam engines were too big for home… Read More
2017-12-16 15:21
The American colonies were ready to revolt. They were tired of British rule and being taxed by a country so far away. They felt they didn’t have a say in government and were treated li… Read More
2017-12-15 02:52
In 1759, British soldiers won a battle against the French in what is now Canada’s province of Quebec. The French left North America for good. But the win left the British with a huge d… Read More
2017-12-14 08:49
The Olmec people of ancient Mexico used rubber thousands of years ago. But it wasn’t until the first scientific paper on rubber was written in 1751 that most people realized how incred… Read More
2017-12-13 21:21
When Dutch travelers arrived on the island of Mauritius in 1598, they found a large bird called the dodo. As tall as a 10-year old, it weighed about the same as a bulldog. The newcomers brou… Read More
2017-12-12 01:41
Many people have seen an apple drop from a tree. But in 1666, when Isaac Newton saw an apple fall to the ground, he saw much more. He knew he was observing an invisible force — gravity… Read More
2017-12-11 04:36
The world’s first astronomer and the father of modern physics — these are just some of the ways people describe Galileo Galilei. Early in his career, in 1589, Galileo showed that… Read More
2017-12-10 10:31
He was almost always ill and had an unhappy home life with difficult parents. Despite these difficulties, Johannes Kepler grew up to become one of the founders of modern science. His theorie… Read More
2017-12-09 16:30
French explorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain was determined to establish a French foothold in North America. In 1604, he sailed to North America and set up a colony in Acadia on St. Croi… Read More
2017-11-30 04:21
Many people think that Plymouth, Massachusetts, was the first English settlement in America. It wasn’t. In 1607, English settlers led by Captain Christopher Newport established a small… Read More
2017-11-29 06:09
The first scientist to really investigate both magnets and electricity was William Gilbert. He was an English physicist and doctor to England’s Queen Elizabeth I and, for a time, to Ki… Read More
2017-11-28 10:01
No one is sure who William Shakespeare really was. Many believe that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. Others think that William Shakespeare was just the pen name used by… Read More
2017-11-27 16:00
Since around the year 150, people believed Earth was the center of the universe. Everything, including the Sun, revolved around the Earth, they thought. Then in 1543, Polish astronomer Nicol… Read More
2017-11-26 16:15
On April 21, 1526, Babur, a Mughal warrior from Asia, fought the Indian sultan of Delhi. The sultan had four times the men, plus warrior elephants. But Babur had cunning and guns. He was des… Read More
2017-11-21 16:34
You might have learned that conductors, such as metal, allow electricity to pass through them easily, while insulators like plastics barely let it pass through at all. Actually, all material… Read More
2017-11-20 16:31
D river error is the most common cause of traffic accidents. So obviously, cars that drive themselves should be able to reduce the number of road accidents. However, this is easier said than… Read More
2017-11-19 16:27
I n September 1984, Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a geneticist from the University of Leicester in Great Britain was studying hereditary diseases in families when he realised that DNA patterns are uniq… Read More
2017-11-18 16:19
Robotic surgery, or robotassisted surgery, allows doctors to perform many types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with conventional techniq… Read More
2017-11-17 17:00
The first locomotive engine ever built in the USA for general service was the Best Friend of Charleston designed primarily by Horatio Allen with E L Miller of the West Point Foundry for the… Read More
2017-11-17 16:18
More than thirty years ago, Steve Jobs presented the new Macintosh personal computer to a room of Apple investors. Though it was met with excited applause from Apple’s shareholder… Read More
2017-11-17 16:12
A manned maneuvering unit or MMU is a jet-powered backpack for astronauts. It is designed to work alongside the life support systems already in place in a space suit. It enables astronauts t… Read More
2017-11-17 16:05
We know that radar is used to determine the location of an object, including aircraft. The operating principle of radar is based on the fact that radio signals reflect off metal surfaces, su… Read More
2017-11-17 04:01
Internet Protocol or IP is a set of rules governing the format of data sent over the Internet or other network. If you want to communicate through the Internet, you need an IP address… Read More
2017-11-16 18:05
Today, laptops are commonly in use everywherein homes, offices, on trains and planes, in schools and hotels. In fact, the laptop computer revolutionised the way people work and travel… Read More
2017-11-16 17:55
The very first artificial heart was implanted in an animal – in this case, a dog- by Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov, in 1937. The first artificial heart to be successfully implante… Read More
2017-11-14 10:12
Suleiman the Magnificent ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. His rule became known as the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire. By the mid-1400s, the Ottomans had become… Read More
2017-11-13 17:15
Hernán Cortés was brash, brave and ambitious. He’d heard about Christopher Columbus’s exploits and knew that glory and riches might be found in the New World. At th… Read More
2017-11-13 17:08
A scanning tunneling microscope, or STM, is a device that obtains images of the atoms on the surfaces of materials. It is the most powerful type of microscope ever built. It was invented in… Read More
2017-11-13 16:54
The Space Shuttle, first launched by NASA in 1981, was the world’s first reusable spacecraft. Normally, spacecraft once launched into space, will orbit the Earth continuously for a spe… Read More
2017-11-13 16:42
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. This virus is spread through infected blood or body secretions. Very often, it doesn’t have any obvious symptoms in adults. It usually pa… Read More
2017-11-13 16:37
A Post-it note is a small piece of paper with a re-usable strip of glue on its back. It can be stuck on documents, or in any prominent spot with messages that act as reminders, and peeled of… Read More
2017-11-13 16:28
Maglev is short for magnetic levitation. It is a method of transport in which high-speed vehicles are lifted by magnetic repulsion, and propelled along an elevated guideway, by powerful magn… Read More
2017-11-13 16:19
Can a car run on air? If it could, all our worries about the world’s diminishing supply of oil and petrol would end. It would be the ideal solution because air never runs out, air is n… Read More
2017-11-13 16:10
Earth-based telescopes suffer from the limitations caused by light pollution, atmospheric turbulence, and weather systems. Added to this, the Earth’s atmosphere absorbs electromagnetic… Read More
2017-11-11 07:03
A personal stereo is a portable audio player. When talking of personal stereos, the first name that comes to mind is Sony Walkman. Why are digital cameras an exciting invention What is elect… Read More
2017-11-11 06:55
It was Seymour Cray who developed the first transistorised supercomputer for the Control Data Corporation by 1950s. Who invented the food processor What is electronic paper Why are digital c… Read More
2017-11-11 06:46
Computer graphics means drawing pictures on a computer screen. This technology was first created as a visualisation tool for scientists in research centres such as Bell Labs and Boeing in th… Read More
2017-11-11 06:25
In 1973, Steven Sasson, a young engineer, went to work for Eastman Kodak. Two years later, he invented digital photography, and made the first digital camera. Digital cameras capture and rec… Read More
2017-11-11 06:12
Electronic paper goes by many names. These include e-paper, sometimes spelled as ePaper, electronic ink, and also E Ink. All of these names describe a technology that mimics the appearance o… Read More
2017-11-11 06:02
PET is not an animal. These three letters stand for polyethylene terephthalate, which is a clear, strong and lightweight plastic belonging to the polyester family. It is typically called &ls&hell…Read More
2017-11-08 17:08
The letters MRI stand for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. An MRI scan is a medical investigation that uses an exceptionally strong magnet and radio frequency waves to generate images of our body… Read More
2017-11-08 17:00
Who invented the food processor, is that your query? Food processors are helpful appliances that are used in kitchens everywhere. Their main purpose is making meal preparation much easier an… Read More
2017-11-07 18:02
Humans have tried many ways to correct problems of vision, whether it is by using spectacles or contact lenses. But, neither of these offers a permanent solution. This is possible only with… Read More
2017-11-05 17:01
Today’s personal computers are drastically different from the massive, hulking machines that emerged after World War II. But, one of the most significant of the inventions that paved t… Read More
2017-11-05 16:57
In the late 40s and early 50s, computer programmes were entered by flicking switches. It was quickly realised how inefficient and slow that was and computer programming languages soon appear… Read More
2017-11-05 16:45
The touch screen is a type of display screen that has a transparent panel covering the screen. This panel is sensitive to touch. It allows a user to interact directly with what is displayed… Read More
2017-11-05 16:35
A microprocessor is an electronic component that is used by a computer to do its work. It is a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit chip, containing millions of very small… Read More
2017-11-05 11:18
Actually, e-mail was never invented – it just evolved from very simple beginnings. An e-mail just puts a message on another user’s computer in a spot where it can be seen when th… Read More
2017-11-05 11:08
The letters CT stand for ‘computerised tomography’. A CT scan uses a computer that takes data from several X-ray images of structures inside the body, and converts them into pict… Read More
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