Although it is almost impossible to translate the great life of Edison in words because his real character ever lived inside the creative and inventive centre of his mind, too busy to show itself to the mundane world. A person’s life is not a catalogue of his physical acts, gains and losses. The larger part […]
When Edison and Duckson invented Kinetoscope for watching a moving film in mid 1890s then the former had founded ‘American Motion Picture Industry’. It was his great misfortune that he had no personal involvement in the industries that were making it big on his inventions and innovations. And in the products his name was not
The year of 1878 proved a bonus for Edison with two stellar achievements in his name. He unveiled two of his new inventions; one was electric power that would lead to creation of the electric bulb displacing the use of the gas light. But it needed a great financial support to carry on the related
By the end of 1875 Thomas Alva Edison had to buy land in the rural belt of Menlo Park, New Jersey. The landlord of Bank Street house, Newark where he had his lab had filed a suit against Edison. In Menlo Park the construction work was overseen by Samuel Edison, the father of Thomas Alva
It is true that Edison did not invent anything directly for the benefit of the present day world. The reason is simple, he was born 161 years back and more than 88 years have gone by since he died. Still in the field of inventions and research the name of Thomas Edison shines bright. By
In 1867 after getting dismissed from Western Union, Thomas Edison had made up his mind to invest his total time and efforts in research work and inventions. After patenting Vote Recorder Machine he had enough reason to believe in himself. But young Thomas was yet to set up his own research lab. He had only
The father of Thomas Alva Edison was born on August 16, 1804 in Nova Scottia. Samuel Augden Edison (Junior) was his name. Samuel was born in a lower middle class family and hence to make something of his life he had to struggle hard and long. For this very reason the Edison family had to
‘Zoo’ is short for ‘Zoological garden’. And a zoological garden is a place where living animals are kept and exhibited.A zoo is kind of school for learning about both animals and people. By watching the things animals do, what they eat and how they grow, much can be learned not only about them but about
It’s been a long journey for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives ‘together’. It has passed through the hands of several dedicated in vendors. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today, but this happened nearly eighty years after the
Zero, one of man’s greatest inventions, was a concept that has had a tremendous influence on the history of mankind because it made the development of higher mathematics possible.Until about the sixteenth century, the number system used in Europe was the Roman system, invented about two thousand years ago. The Roman system was built on
On 8 November 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen accidentally discovered an image cast from his cathode ray generator, projected far beyond the possible range of the cathode rays. Further investigations showed that the rays were generated at the point of contact of the cathode ray beam inside the vacuum tube, that they were not deflected by
One morning in 1903, Albert J. Parkhouse of America arrived as usual at his workplace, the Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company in Jackson, Michigan, which specialized in making lampshade frames and other wire items. When he went to hang his hat and coat on the hooks provided for the workers, Parkhouse found all were in
A rainy day. You are out in a car or a bus. The rain is so heavy that you find it difficult to see even a few yards ahead. The driver has to drive very carefully. Can you imagine how he would be able to drive if the wiper was not there, swinging back and
A Swiss engineer was taking his dog for a walk in the wild fields. When he returned, burrs (seeds with a hairy outer covering) were sticking all over his trousers and the fur of his dog. He could have brushed it off, and forgotten about it. But he didn’t. He took the burr and rushed
Hubert, Cecil Booth, a British engineer, received a British patent for a vacuum cleaner on August 30, 1901. This unwieldy machine took the form of a large, horse-drawn, petrol-driven unit, which was parked outside the building to be cleaned with long hoses being fed through the windows. James Murray Spangler, a janitor in an Ohio