Chapter 11 Saturday, August 15.There was water and water everywhere in the vast sea as far as the eye could see. There was no trace of land. I was in utter shock. My uncle has had no dreams, but he is out of temper. He examines the horizon all round with his glass, and folds […]
The modern lie detector was invented by a medical student in the year 1921 called as John Larson of the University of California. It was also named as polygraph for the instrument measures skin conduc-tivity blood pressure, pulse and respiration, which are commonly suspected to change involuntarily when an individual lies. It was actually in
Chapter 10 The next morning I awoke feeling perfectly well. I thought a bath would do me good, and I went to plunge for a few minutes into the waters of this mediterranean sea, for assuredly it better deserved this name than any other sea. I came back to breakfast with a good appetite. Hans
The theoretical foundations for laser were first established by Albert Einstein in his paper entitled Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung in 1917. He did this by re-deriving the Max Plank’s law of radiation. Later in 1947, Willis Lamb and R.C. Retherford managed the first demonstration of stimulated emission. The term laser was coined as a short
The most carrying thing by any office person is the laptop. The first laptop was designed in 1979 by William Moggridge. The year 1989 was successful for laptop inventors; finally there was introduced Compaq computer that designed its first laptop PC called Compaq LTC. People can carry them anywhere, whether in business travel. The work
The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. In 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828– 1914) was determined to produce long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper
Chapter 9 I was plunged into an abyss of despair. I could see no way out from there. I was sure to die of hunger and thirst.Mechanically I swept the ground with my hands. How dry and hard the rock seemed to me! But how had I left the course of the stream? For it
Levi Strauss is said to be the one who invented jeans, although the material is said to be associated with Italy from where the material ‘Jeane’ was first exported and produced. It is said that he once met a young miner in the year 1852 who needed a pair of strong pants. After he had
The new technology, I-phone, was disclosed by Steve Jobs on 9 January, 2007, and released in the market on 29 June, 2007. The touch-and-gesture features of the I-phone, attract the people with its unique outlook. The I-phone allows audio conferencing, call holding, call merging, caller ID, and unites with other network features and I-phone functions.
Music is loved always but it was the Apple Inc. who has made it possible to be carried anytime, anywhere by anyone via one of their most useful inventions called as I-pod in the year 2001. In a layman’s word, it can be said as a portable media player. Now, the market is flooded with
The Internet, which transformed the world into a global village, has its roots of invention way back to the development of computers in 1950s. In 1973, the Internet was initially developed by Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist as part of a project sponsored by the Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency of the
Chapter 8 It must be confessed that hitherto things had not gone on so badly, and that I had small reason to complain. If our difficulties became no worse, we might hope to reach our end. And to what a height of scientific glory we should then attain! I had become quite a Liedenbrock in
Inhalers are portable handheld devices that deliver medication via inhalation directly to the lungs. There are two kinds of inhalers: Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs), which deliver medicine in a mist or spray and Dry Powder Inhalers (DPIs), which deliver the medicine in a fine powder. Inhalers were developed in the 1778 by an English physician
In the early 1990s, people were known of induction cooker but it’s definitely not a new technology; it had been widely used for so long. Induction cooker was introduced to the crowd in Chicago in 1933 and also in the mid of 1950. To assure its security a newspaper had been kept in between the
Chapter 7 At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake us up. The thousand shining surfaces of lava on the walls received it on its passage, and scattered it like a shower of sparks. There was light enough to distinguish surrounding objects. “Well, Axel, what do you say to it?” cried