A long, long time ago, there lived two brothers in a village. They both were very poor. The elder brother had a little more than the other one. He had a larger family to support than the younger brother. One autumn, they harvested their grain, but the elder one was worried about his younger brother, […]
The folding door help us to connect the living area of the room, inside and outside and we can enjoy the sunlight and air and can easily join indoor and outdoor tricks. This door has one special thing compared with the other doors that it can be easily folded. It has a unique system. It
The folding chair was invented by Nathaniel Alexander in 1911. It was of steel or wood based structure. He invented this chair to be used in schools, churches, auditorium, and for other reasons. It is generally used for seating in areas where there is no permanent seat. This includes both outdoor and indoor areas. It
William L. Murphy lived in a one-room apartment that had a standard bed taking up most of the floor space. Because he wanted to entertain, he began experimenting with a folding bed, and applied for his first patent around 1900. The ‘Murphy Wall Bed Company’ of California came into being that year, making it one
The invention of the flashlight was preceded by the invention of electric battery and light. In 1895, David Missel invented the flashlight. It was a paper tube structure with a light bulb and brass reflector at one end and ‘D’ batteries from front to back that helped power it. The initial flashlights used zinc-carbon batteries
Two hundred years ago, there was a princess named May Yee. She was born in Malaysia. She wanted to get married to a young man, but he was very poor. Her mother was very angry because she wanted to marry the poor young man. Her mother said, “Are you sure you want to get married
The mechanism fan was discovered by Omar-Rajeen Jumala on 27 November, 1830. This was a fan with an air pump inside it. This fan was made up for coal mines, factories and the industries where the heat was more; it decreased the temperature of that area and made it cool. In the ancient time, up
Facebook is now a famous social networking website which was invented on 4 February, 2004 by Harvard university student Mark Zuckerberg in association with his college mates Eduuardo Saverin, Andrew Mc Collum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. This website was originally named as ‘Facemash’ but later it was named as ‘Facebook’. To use this website
Two travellers were on a long journey through the countryside. They were walking along a track, they suddenly spotted a great bear ambling towards them. The first traveller climbed up the first tree and hid amongst the high branches. The second one dropped his bags and fell to the ground, pretending to be dead. He’d
The eyes of human beings are very sensitive and cannot bear extreme light. The retina of the human eye can get damaged because of immense light. Therefore, earlier people started inventing different eye-protectors. Eye-protectors were invented within the past 130 years. It is the result of modification done in traditional eyewear. After 4 BC, it
Louis Bernard Rabaut, in the year 1822, invented the first espresso machine, which used steam as a medium to allow hot water through ground coffee to make espresso. In the year 1833, Dr. Ernest Illy invented the first automatic espresso machine. In Italy, Angelo Moriondo from Turin, built an espresso machine in 1884 but his
When somebody over-rates himself, he is often warned: “Don’t be a mantis trying to stop a chariot.” The saying comes from a legend dated back to the spring and autumn period. One day, the King of Qi went out for hunting. The carriages were going along, when suddenly a mantis stood in the middle of
The escalator, which made climbing stairs easier, is dated way back in 1859. On 9 March, 1859, Nathan Ames of Massachusetts got a patent issued for revolving escalators. It provided a base for others to work on and developed it into the modern-day escalator. During 1890s, Jesse Reno made a practical model of the escalator.
Though the first ever elevator was created in the year 1793, the history of it dates back to as early as 236 BC, where there was a reference of a structure like elevator in the Roman empire. The invention of the screw driver was what led to the invention of the first kind of modern-day
The earliest accounts of using irons for smoothing out wrinkles in fabrics were from China in the 1st century BC. Flat irons came to be used in the 17th century. The invention of the electric iron is credited to an American inventor named Henry Seeley in 1882. An iron heated by a carbon arc was