Italian Renaissance architect, musician, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter Leonardo da Vinci, died at Amboise, in France on 2 May 1519. His drawings and writings are collected in the twelve volumes of the Codex Atlanticus (Atlantic Codex) whose name indicates the large format of an atlas of the dimension 650×440 mm and the atlas-like breadth… Read More Leonardo da Vinci
The first person to be seen on a television screen was a 20-year-old office boy , William Taynton, who happened to work in the same building in central London as John Logie Baird, who was experimenting with his invention.On 2 October 1925, the Scottish engineer and inventor decided to perform the first test of a… Read More The First Man on TV
Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 to Serbian parents in what is now Croatia.He was an engineer and a scientist whose inventions include the Tesla coil, still used in radio technology, the alternating-current (AC) electric system, which is the predominant electrical system used across the world today, and the discovery of the rotating… Read More Tesla’s Obsessions
The BAND-AID® Brand adhesive bandage is one hundred years old. It was invented in 1921 by an unknown Johnson & Johnson employee, Earle Dickson, whose wife was accident-prone, or at least unfamiliar with her new kitchen. Up to then it was not infrequent to die of infection from wounds and cuts even within the walls… Read More Happy Birthday, Band-Aid 🩹
Betty Boop was a cultural icon in the 1930s, the symbol of all the appealing characteristics of the bygone roaring twenties. The cartoon was a hit with adults and later with children, when the notorious Hays Code made her more toned down. Betty Boop, who was born as a Poodle and had become a Pin-up… Read More ✨ Happy Birthday, Betty Boop! (3)
In 1824, the Legislature of Lower Canada enacted the first patent law in British North America and on 8 June 1824 in Quebec City, an inventor named Noah Cushing was the first Canadian to be awarded a patent for a “washing and fulling machine” to clean and strengthen cloth. That machine was described as” having… Read More “Pecunia Non Olet”🧼
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. (Ray Bradbury) Today (23rd June, 2018) is Typewriter Day, which celebrates this humble mechanical device and the amazing pieces of literature it has brought to us over the decades. Typewriters… Read More Typewriter Day
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