Modern Science
1. Air plane Invention
The world’s first aero plane was made by the brothers Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright of the United States of America, in 1903. The pair later became famous as the Wright Brothers. Their first aircraft flew on 17 December, 1903. It flew for mere 57 seconds but that was enough to prove that powered flight was possible. The Wright brothers named their machine ‘Wright Flyer I’ and it was a biplane—it had two wings.
2. 3D Invention
The first patent for a mechanism which produced 3D effects was issued in the name of William Friese-Greene, a portrait photographer and an inventor in the 1890s. He played two films juxtaposed and used a stereoscope to converge them. Although advanced, his mechanism wasn’t suited to practical use in the cinemas of the day. The first 3D movie shown to the public was ‘The Power of Love’ in 1922 at the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles, in the United States. The film was produced by Harry K. Fairall and Robert F. Elder. The film wasn’t really a hit. Several attempts were made in the later years but producing 3D movies was still an exception rather than the rule.
3. School Invention
Schools have been around with us since the humans became civilized. There is certainly no doubt that the ancients around 10,000 BC were teaching their children the art of survival. But in the strict sense of the word they can’t be considered as schools.Near 4000 BC the Mesopotamians developed the art of writing; which, like it is today, was essential to commerce, politics and other advanced spheres of human life. Therefore it became essential to teach and train people who could read and write and that is when the first school (in the modern sense of the word) came into being. The early schools used to cater to only the children belonging to the nobility of their society.
4. Super Over In IPL
First of all, an “over” in cricket is a series of six consecutive balls bowled. In Twenty20 cricket, each team bats a maximum of 20 overs. If the score is tied after each team has batted its 20 overs, the “super over” comes into play. This form of cricket was introduced just five years ago, officially. It was brought about by the apparent decrease in watching extended cricket matches. Organizers put together a Twenty20 form that would have a quicker pace and would hold audience interest
5. English Invention
The language has more long vowels before the 14th century and the spelling of that time are not easily comprehensible to a layman. A poem of Chaucer, a 14th century English poet, is an example of this:
But al thyng which that shineth as the gold
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told;
Later came the era of Shakespeare who enriched the language, coined new words and almost standardized the language. The colonialist adventures of Britain in the 18th and 19th spread English to far off lands. Americans, after gaining their independence from Britain didn’t give up English. Today, English is an official language in more than 40 countries. The United States tops the lists when it comes to the number of English speakers. It is followed by other nations such as Britain, India, Australia, and Nigeria and so on.
6. Fried Chicken Invention
Paper Fried Chicken, as they call it in Chinese, was known to the ancient Chinese. It is however, the Scots and the African-Americans who are usually credited with having invented fried chicken. There was a tradition in Scotland to fry chicken, unlike their counterparts in England who boiled chicken. Later, when the Scottish immigrants reached the United States, it became a culinary habit there, especially in the South.
7. Paper Invention
Ts’ai-Lun is the first person to have come up with modern paper. He presented his invention to the Chinese emperor in 105AD. The Egyptians had been using paper earlier but it is the Chinese paper that resembles the modern paper more. Even the Chinese methods of manufacturing paper were more like the modern ones, that is, they would soak plant fibers in water and beat it into a sludge which was then dried in a careful manner to produce paper.
8. NASA
The NASA headquarters are located on 300 E Street SW, Washington DC, in the United States. NASA is an acronym which stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration and it became operational on 1 October, 1958. It replaced National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NACA was dissolved on the day NASA came into being.
The NASA is a space exploration agency but it was founded with the aim to save American national pride. After coming out victorious from the Second World War the United States could not see itself at number two position when it came to space exploration and technology. The former Soviet Union was making rapid progress in the field. They had launched the world’s first artificial satellite – the Sputnik 1 . The NASA employed a lot of German scientists, who had been captured by the American troops during the Second World War. Werner von Braun, who had designed V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2) rockets for the Nazi Germany during the World War II, was assigned the job of developing new rockets for the United States. After some initial setbacks, the agency launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, on 31 January, 1958. What followed next was a race between the Americans and Soviets to show off their technological capabilities – this competition between the US and the former USSR is widely known as the ‘Space Race.’
9. Movie Invention
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, a Frenchman, was the first person to record a motion film in 1888. The film was named Roundhay Garden Scene and it was a silent film and the duration of the movie was two seconds! A lot of films followed until the advent of 20th century with one thing in common – they were all silent movies. In spite of this fact, movies managed to catch the imagination of the general public. The movies of that period were considered visual art.