Compass is an instrument for navigation and orientation. It has a magnetic needle or a card that can rotate freely, and if positioned horizontally it will align itself with the magnetic field of the Earth and point Magnetic North-South. TheFirst compasswas invented in China during the Han Dyna...
Robert Haig Weitbrecht was an engineer at SRI International and later the spin-off company Weitbrecht Communications who invented a type of a modem (a form of acoustic coupler). Age: Dec. at 63 (1920-1983) Birthplace: Orange, California Lloyd Hall Chemist, Inventor Lloyd Augustus Hall (Jun...
The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theory Mata Hari: Her Severed Head was Kept in a Paris Museum. Then it Disappeared. kooky (adj.): 1959, American English, originally teenager or beatnik slang, possibly a shortening of cuckoo. Using the newest show-business jargon, Tammy [Grimes] ad...
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His innovation of the flexible, versatile, electrical insulation material he invented and named “Tufnol” is so outstandingly successful that the brand will live on into the 21st century. “Switch Works” by Dame Laura Knight. A commemorative painting of activity at the Perry Barr works of ...
Ha, Ha, Ha -- who's got the last laugh now?" --Ira Gershwin, 1937 When an inordinately eccentric young farmer suggested that he had invented a portable wireless telephone that could broadcast voice and music up over hight buildings and down through stone walls, most of Calloway County, Ke...
Known by the nickname of “víðförla” in Iceland which means “far-travelled,” this Norse woman joined first her father and then her husband in different explorations of North America (long before Christopher Columbus and other Europeans). Gudrid was the daughter of a chieftain and trave...
Rolex has invented a date feature to prevent errors in their fake watches. This clock has a date of 3 p.m. It also shows automatic movement without the need to charge or replace the battery, as it sets itself while you’re running! Rolex Date 34 Automatic Steel Oyster Permanent Ref ...
Of course, we went straight for the WV 12. We’d almost hoped that it wouldn’t be the best beer in the world, that we’d hipster ourselves out of enjoying it. But oh, it’s good. So good it invented its own class of beer – the Abt, or darker, quadrupel – and still dominat...