Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on 6 August, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St. Mary’s Medical School, London University. He qualified with distinction […]
Kinsey became a household name in the 1950s for his research on the sexual mods of American women and men. Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 23 June, 1894. His father, Alfred, taught at the Stevens Institute of Technology, despite having only an eighth-grade education. Kinsey was a sickly child, plagued by rheumatic
Antony R. Barringer was born on 20 October, 1925. He was a geophysicist by profession. He had unmatched contribution in the field of mineral exploration technology. He was well known for the development of Induced Pulse Transient or INPUT electromagnetic system. Along with this he also invented an instrument, which is useful as a portable
A bull once escaped from a lion by entering a cave which the goatherds used to house their flocks in stormy weather and at night. It happened that one of the goats had been left behind. No sooner had the bull got inside than the goat lowered his head and made a rush at him,
Radio, as we know it today, is mostly because of the famous invention of antennas for radio navigation systems by Andrew Alford. This invention helps individual FM stations to broadcast simultaneously from one source to others. Andrew Alford was born in Samara, Russia, on 5 August, 1904. He was a graduate from the University of
Once, there lived a weaver family in the village, in which there were a sweet mother and a caring father and a new born baby. Once the weaver family had gone to see the fair. In the fair a mongoose was being sold; the mother liked that mongoose and bought. The mother loved the mongoose
Anatoly Alexandrov (13 February, 1903–3 February, 1994) was known as a sportsperson and also an inventor. He had been an academician in the university at Director’s Post for a long period of time. He was a Russian Soviet and became the third known decorator at the end of his life. Earlier after his graduation, he
Ami Argand (5 July, 1750–14 October, 1803) was a Swiss physicist and a chemist who invented the Argand Lamp, which was a huge success on the usual oil lamp. Fascinated by the aptitude of science, he became an apprentice of Benedict de Saussure, a renowned meteorologist and a botanist. He began his invention in the
Once, a mother lark lived on a tree with her young baby. They lived happily. Unfortunately, one day a woodcutter visited the forest and cut the tree on which the mother lark and her baby lived. Now they had become homeless. Then the mother lark and the baby lark started wandering in search of their
Lami, a sweet-hearted lamb, was once grazing with his friends under the observation of shepherds. Suddenly a thundering sound from the cloud gave them a message that the earth’s saviour was to be born in the pious land of Bethlehem. All inquisitive shepherds in order to have the child’s first look, departed to Bethlehem. Lami
Once, a crane lived near a pond, and went to pond daily and stood into the pond for hours to catch the prey. The crane had become old and fragile, and found it difficult to stand into the pond too long in search of prey. A plan struck his mind to catch prey easily. He
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October, 1833–10 December, 1896) was born in Sweden. Son of an engineer, he had spent a considerable time studying chemistry in Paris and working in the USA. He is best known for producing dynamite, which is believed to be a safe, manageable and controllable form of nitro-glycerine. He started producing the
Once, a little boy Bunny went to see a fair in his village. He wandered there for hours. While wandering he reached a shop, in which a man was selling beautiful birds. Bunny fascinated towards a speaking parrot and bought the parrot. Bunny kept the parrot in the cage in his house. Every day, Bunny
Alexandre Alexeieff (18 April, 1901–9 August, 1982) was a famous inventor who worked in the pinscreen that was made use in the making of films. The film shots usually use a white board which is known as pinscreen. He used extraordinary black board in his films. The length that was possessed by this board is
Alexander Graham Bell is one of the most popular scientists in the world that ever we had because of his practice only. We are talking now on the telephone. He invented the first practical telephone. He was not only a scientist but also an inventor, engineer and innovator. He was born on 3 March, 1847,