When Was Fax Machine Invented?
When Was Fax Machine Invented? From the mid-19th century, inventors had been working on ways of transmitting words and images down the telegraph or the telephone wires. The German physicist Arthur Korn is generally...
Samuel Eliot Morison – Famous American Scholar & Historian
Like the Greek historian Thucydides and the American historian Francis Parkman, Samuel Eliot Morison writes his books as much as possible from firsthand experiences. Indirect contact with the events that he recorded in his...
Sake Dean Mahomed – First Indian to Publish a Book in English
Who was Sake Dean Mahomet?
He was a soldier, a masseuse, a restaurateur, a doctor, a litterateur, an entrepreneur, a Muslim, and a Christian. He was an extraordinary man who spiced up the life of an...
The History of Chromatography
The History of Chromatography is very interesting to know. But the word might also be a play on the botanist’s own surname, which means ‘color’ in Russian. According to this interpretation, ‘chromatography’ would literally mean...
Obelisk’s – Symbols of Conquest and Mysterious Power
An Obelisk's Perilous Voyage Egypt's stone originally raised in homage to the sun have been coveted since Roman times as symbols of conquest and mysterious power. it is Weighing an average of 150 tons,...
Johannes Havelius – First Man Who Map the Moon
Johannes Hevelius published the first detailed map of the surface of the Moon in 1647. He was born on 28 January 1611 in Danzig (Gdansk), now a city in Poland. His German name was...
John Hays Hammond Jr. – The Father of Radio Control
An "inventor's inventor," whose hundreds of patents underlie much of our modern technology. John Hays Hammond Jr. lives and works in a medieval-style castle, which he built on the rocky New England coast near...
Bohdan Winiarski – Former Polish Politician and Jurist
Bohdan Winiarski was elected president of the International Court of Justice by his fourteen fellow judges on April 5, 1961. Bohdan Winiarski of Poland will continue to preside over the judicial arm of the...
The First Ever Airmail Must Get Through?
The success of the aeroplane led quickly to the introduction of airmail. United States in the vanguard and on 17 February 1911, Fred Wiseman made the first official airmail flight. He was carrying three letters...
The World Takes Wing – The Adventure of Flight
The World Takes Wing – The Adventure of Flight? The first intrepid aviators who lifted off in heavier than air machines were all too aware of the huge gulf between the urge to fly...
Gerhard Domagk – Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology
The award to the German doctor Gerhard Domagk of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology was announced in 1939. That is for his discovery seven years earlier of the "antibacterial effects of Prontosil."...
‘RUFF’ – The Brown Dog Riots of 1907
How are you feeling about “Ruff” The Brown Dog Riots of 1907? Sometimes experimenting with animals generates some strong feelings. And results in the occasional nutter breaking into a laboratory. But that’s nothing compared...
The Massive Earthquake of Pakistan 2005
The high inaccessible mountains of Pakistan experienced a powerful earthquake. Both the mountainous location and the political setting of the earthquake led to delays and massive transportation problems. An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck...
Mowrer Edgar Ansel – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
Regarded by many as the dean of American foreign correspondents, Edgar Ansel Mowrer as author, journalist, and lecturer. He was an outspoken proponent of a vigorous foreign policy on the part of the United...
Jumping the Gun – The War of 1812
The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States erupted over a few issues, mostly to do with shipping. The Yanks didn’t like the fact that they were occasionally impressed into the Royal...
The Biography of Giovanni Buitoni
The head of the culinary empire comprising Buitoni pasta products and Perugina chocolates and confections is Giovanni Buitoni. The great-grandson of Giulia Buitoni, who started a small macaroni business in San Sepolcro, Italy in...
ARGY-BARGY – Argentine’s Falklands War of 1982
It is very interesting to know the history of the Falklands War of 1982. Why did Falklands war start? In 1983 a government inquiry, the Franks Committee partly blamed the Falklands War on Margaret...
Mstislav Keldysh – Distinguished Physicist and Mathematician
Mstislav Keldysh was the elected president of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences on May 19, 1961. Professor Mstislav Keldysh is a distinguished physicist and mathematician and a professor at the University of Moscow. He...
The Historical Fátima Shrines in Portugal
A very interesting history of Fatima Shrines in Portugal. As World War I was devastating Europe, three illiterate children in a poor village started experiencing multiple visions of the Virgin Mary in an isolated...
The Lost Treasure of Kelly’s Canyon, Idaho
Perhaps the most popular lost treasure in the whole of Eastern Idaho at least in terms of numbers of people who know of it and have tried to find it is Kelly's Canyon Gold....
