Once, there was a grasshopper who lived beneath the grass. An owl also lived in the tree near the grasshopper. The grasshopper always kept singing. One day, the owl was sitting in a hollow tree, dozing away summer’s afternoon. He was very much disturbed by the grasshopper singing in the grass beneath. So far from […]
Clarence Birdseye (9 December, 1886–7 October, 1956) an American naturalist, is the originator of the science behind frozen foods. His interest in the food industry began during 1912-1915 while he was conducting a field study in Labrador. Birdseye came up with the idea to freeze seafood at a very low temperature, when he found that seafood
Once, a wolf named Justy had become pale and drawn, and was dying with hunger. Then he sent a message to his entire relatives about his bad health. All his relatives arrived there to see him. A dog, who was the cousin of Justy, had also arrived to ask after his health. When the dog
Once, a snake was roaming in the jungle. A thorn pierced through his body. He started crying, then a crab heard his voice and took the thorn out. The snake took a breath of relief. Since then, they had become friends and lived together. Since the crab had a straightforward character, he urged the snake
Corradino D’Ascanio was born on 1 February, 1891 at Popoli in Pescara. He was an Italian aeronautical engineer. He designed the first innovation helicopter for the Agusta. The first motor scooter was also designed by him for Ferdinando Innocent. Ferdinando Innocent gave him responsibility to design the scooter that was easy to drive for both
Charles Darwin is regarded as a distinguished figure in history and was known for his exceptional scientific discoveries. Darwin was born in 12th February, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. He was deeply interested in the subject of taxonomy, which implied the classification of living things and marine surroundings. The five-year voyage throughout the globe on a
Once, a lion of the jungle had become very old, so he couldn’t hunt food for himself. He always wandered there in order to find his prey which he could catch easily, without making much effort. One day he saw three bullocks grazing in an open field. He had tried to attack them several times,
To call the great Charles Babbage (26 December, 1791–18 October, 1871) ‘Father of the Computer’ would not be really justified. He was a great English born philosopher, mathematician, mechanical engineer and an inventor who changed the way people used to compute things by the 19th century. His first mechanical computer was a simple device, which
The eminent Indian scientist C.V. Raman was born 7 November, 1888, who received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his work, scattering of light, also known as ‘Raman effect’. Once when he was measuring the angle of prism with the help of Spectrometer, he observed some diffraction bands. This observation fired his imagination. He
Bartolomeo Cristofori di Franceso (4 May, 1655–27 January, 1731) was known as the inventor of the very famous musical instrument known as piano. He was born in Padua in the republic of Venice. He was the Italian maker. Bartolomeo was appointed as the musical technician for Prince Ferdinando de Medici. He was the great innovator
Bruno Abakanowicz (6 October, 1852–29 August, 1900) was a mathematician, a great inventor and, later, an electrical engineer. He was very well known for the integrator that was invented in 1880. In his other patents of works, the electrical bell is known after he had worked on it and invented the most newly designed. He
Bi Sheng (990–1051) had been the discoverer of the First recog-nized movable typetechnology. His system was built of Chinese porcelain. Throughout the dominate of the Chingli he built the movable type. His technique was: he chose sticky clay and cut in them characters which was as thinly as the boundary of a surface of coins. Every character shaped as
Barbara Askins is credited with the invention of a new and better method of developing films. She was a teacher when she started her career. After completing her education, she went to work for NASA where she was given the task of inventing a way to improve astronomical photos taken from space. Her invention engrossed
Arnold O. Beckman was born on 18 May, 1900 in the U.S. He got his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in the year 1922 in Chemical Engineering. He also earned his master’s degree in the year 1923 in Physical Chemistry from there. He got selected in the Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity in
Once, a group of mice lived in the hole of a house. They were very happy with their life but the owner of the house became angry with the mice, so he brought a cat in the house to catch the rats. Soon the cat was preying on them. Fed up with the cat, the