Barbiturates 1903 – A Good Night’s Sleep
The history of Barbiturates tells us, that this was introduced in 1903 by two German research chemists. The new drug revolutionized the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Ten to fifteen minutes after taking...
The Second Anglo-Afghan War
The second Anglo-Afghan War has a rich history. The English Cabinet was making futile attempts to reach an understanding with Russia. The Government of India was making equally futile attempts to make friends with...
Casimir Funk – Who First Revealed Vitamins in 1911
Vitamins are essential elements for health today. It was the Polish-born biochemist Casimir Funk who first revealed the vital role played by vitamins in human metabolism. His work opened up a new field of...
Who Built First Motorway in the World?
The world's first motorway was built in Berlin. In 1909 the German Automobile Club began investigating the feasibility of constructing a fast road to the west of the city. Work on the route, which...
Mao Tse-tung – Founding Father of The People’s Republic of China
The leader of some 700,000,000 Chinese is Mao Tse-tung Chairman of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China. A soldier, politician, poet, and scholar, he is considered by many as the leading...
The Armoured Cars and Tanks
Motor cars had made their appearance in the closing years of the nineteenth century. By the time that war broke out the efficiency and reliability of the internal combustion engine. On which these machines...
Memorable Photographs of Nazi History
Within three years of their first electoral success, the Nazis get hold of political power in Germany when Adolf Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933. That beautiful clear evening Hitler stood in the...
The Wrecking and the Wreck of Zeppelin LZ33
On the night of September 24th, 1916, the Zeppelin L33 was brought down by the combined efforts of the London defenses and 2nd Lieut. A de B Brandon of 39 Squadron, flying his BE2c...
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...