When the question asked,when was the first computer invented, the answers depend on whom you ask. If you ask a historian,they might tell you that the first computer was the Abacus, invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. However, there are claims that the first modern computer was actually invented during World War II.There were team of scientists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania get
I know this is a provocative title, but here I’m presenting a thesis that may have been overlooked due to assumptions we have in our minds about Buddhism. Buddhism has been always an example of Asian thought devoid of any European influence. But now, I’m crazy enough to say that it was invented by Europeans?! How could that be? Well, it was the Greek invaders who gave India the Buddha.The Absc
New historical evidence has shown that America's treasured national sport of baseball was in fact invented by Britain, and played there 20 years before American independence.An author and historian, William Bray, writing in 1755 describes baseball as a well established sport in the 18th century, played by men and women.The diary, that has been authenticated by the Surrey History Centre, confirmed
YouTube is the most popular video sharing sites on the Internet and YouTube contains over 83.4 million videos. This article will tell you exactly who invented YouTube and also tell you some facts about YouTube.
Who Invented It?
I haven’t really got a name for it. Using the UNESCO World Heritage Lists (the regional lists published on Wikipedia are pretty in depth), pick out the places you’ve already been.
It’s pretty straight forward. You could pick out the places you want to go, as well, except that for me that would be just about [...]
Chewing gum is a popular type of confectionary that is used to freshen breath and help dental hygiene. This article will tell you exactly who invented gum and also look at some facts about chewing gum including some health risks associated with chewing gum.
Timeline of the Invention of Chewing Gum
For a number of years now, the LCD display has all but made the older CRT displays extinct. While LCD screens are still being improved on by making them thinner, brighter, and produce better image quality, researchers are always on the lookout for the next technology breakthrough. Microsoft announced that a pair of its engineers and a graduate student from the University of Washington, Anna
An Filipino engineer named Daniel Dingle, who used to work for NASA, has developed a car that uses plain tap water and/or sea water for fuel. The technology utilizes a mini-reactor in the car that splits the water molecule into hydrogen & oxygen, with hydrogen being burned off as fuel. The emission released out of the exhaust is clean pure water vapor or water - absolutely no pollution! In fac
Dice have been around for many years and can be considered the oldest gaming instrument known to mankind. Many games from the ancient times to this modern world would not have become possible if dice were not invented.
I really got curious as to who invented the dice. I got a notion that these game implements were contrived by the Egyptian, and I may be right. But as matter of fact, the precise
This just pisses me off. My friend Big Bad Wolf poseted a bolg about Oil prices and I replied with a few thoughts on his blog and it got we riled up enough to share those same posted thoughts with my ...
I excogitated a recipe my kids love to eat. I called it "Sosie Beef" wherein a beef should be boiled first until soft. Cut into small or stripe pieces. Then, saute the garlic, onions, ginger and tomato. After a minute, you can now add the cut beef with a 2 table spoons of soy sauce, 1 tbsp of banana ketchup, 2 tbsp of oyster sauce, 1 tbsp sugar and a little bit of worcestershire. And, don't forget
Cell phones are very useful electronic devices that allow you to talk to or text message other people. Cell phones are fast becoming one of the most popular pieces of technology and nearly everyone ones a cell phone. I remember first getting a cell phone (of course, we call them mobile phones here in Australia) when I was 14. It was the size of a brick!
The new and growing field of gestural computing got a serious field test during brain surgeryGestural interfaces are a hot new field of computing. Microsoft announced that its upcoming OS -- Windows 7 -- will rely heavily on gestures and touch. In a most basic sense, a gestural interface is controlled by movements of the hands or arms, allowing users to gesture to literally scroll around images
Since Czech writer Karel Capek popularized the concept in 1921, humanity has had a charming and amiable relationship with the robot. The only problem? Some people are dicks, and they can build robots too.read more | digg story
Lets take a black board. Then, I am going to ask you to mark hundreds of tally marks individually on the board with a black chalk and then stand back. I will then ask you to pick out the seventeenth from the left ... read more!
The US Patent and Trademark Office has recently released a patent document for a "Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics". Although the title doesn't make it clear, for the sake of simplicity, this is the iPhone patent. Filed by Apple, the (massive) 370 page document covers everything from the interface we all know and love, to f
Nanoengineered barrier invented to protect plastic electronics from water degradation
A breakthrough barrier technology from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar cells from moisture 1000 times more effectively than any other technology available in the market, opening up new
Did you know that a gynecologist and his son invented the liposuction procedure? It was two Italian physicians, Dr. Giorgio Fischer and his son of the same name, who are credited with inventing liposuction back in 1974. However, it was a few years later when liposuction was actually used purely for cosmetic enhancement.
ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 15, number 7 - June 1991: The Man Who Invented Lawyers; Consequences; Lichen and Rock; Celilo; Living Will; Standing in Line with Mister Jimmy; Candle; Baby It’s Cold Outside (Paperback)By Gardner (editor) (Alexis A. Gilliland; Lawrence Person; Eileen Gunn; Mary Rosenblum; Alexander Jablokov; James Patrick Kelly; [...]
We admit, we’ve been a little too quiet of late. “So what’s up?,” you ask. In January, our team got together to talk about the future of TokBox. It was awesome. We poured over mountains of feedback, digested radical designs, and waxed poetic about the fundamental tenets of human communication. We [...]
We admit, we’ve been a little too quiet of late. “So what’s up?,” you ask. In January, our team got together to talk about the future of TokBox. It was awesome. We poured over mountains of feedback, digested radical designs, and waxed poetic about the fundamental tenets of human communication. We [...]
From The American Bard in New Orleans : In his youth, Sanders had the vision of the social movement that both cheerleaders and detractors refer to when they conjure the 1960s. While most people may be unaware of the bigness of Ed Sanders' work, they've not missed his colorful feathers that have graced our landscape for decades. "Ed Sanders invented everything," our mutual friend John Sinclair once told me. He's a Renaissance hyphenate and one of the first public figures of his generation to live seamlessly within the realms of politics, art and fun. In the process of self-reinvention, he became the first cousin to Che Guevara's paradigmatic New Man -- albeit thoroughly American and anti-authoritarian. To list all of Ed's prodigious accomplishments, we'd need more space tha
As an investment banking firm, we regularly dialogue with the top executives in the beverage industry. We have to chuckle when we reach a decision maker with a large beverage company and he says, “We have a corporate policy that we organically develop all of our own beverage concepts.” Does this guy read the industry [...]
Talk about going down in history as a badass...
When Martin Cooper invented the mobile phone 35 years ago, he envisioned a world with people so wedded to wireless connections that they would walk around with devices embedded in their bodies. But while phones have come a long way since the former Motorola researcher made the first-ever wireless call from a busy New York street corner in April
Exit Realty is the fastest growing real estate company in the US and Canada.If you are looking for something different and new, it's time to EXIT to real estatere-invented. Please contact me if you would like more information. Melissa Moore - RealtorExit Select Realty(919)610-1585www.trianglerealestatespecialist.com
Exit Realty is the fastest growing real estate company in the US and Canada.If you are looking for something different and new, it's time to EXIT to real estatere-invented. Please contact me if you would like more information. Melissa Moore - RealtorExit Select Realty(919)610-1585www.trianglerealestatespecialist.com
It would seem that Basketball has been with us forever. Yet it was only in 1881 that Dr. James Naismith created the game that now is one of the most popular games in the United States. What you may not also realise is that Naismith was actually born in Canada, and some wonder if the sport would be so popular in the US had he not been living in Massachusetts at the time he invented it. Prior to shifting to Massachusetts Dr Naismith worked as the athletics director at the University of McGill in Montreal for several years. In Massachusetts he worked with the YMCA Training School. Here Dr Naismith was looking for a game that the students would be able to play indoors. For during the winter months it was difficult to play outdoors. The first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball and
Post-it notes (or Post-its) are re-adherable pieces of stationary that are designed to attach to documents, computer monitors and tables without the need for blu tack or tape. Post-its leave no marks or residues when they are removed from different surfaces and they can be moved from one surface to another without losing much of their ‘stickiness’. But who invented Post-it notes?
So I did a post entitled "White girls can hot fuck too" which shows a white girl enjoying a Jamaican street dance.Then I did a post entitled "Japanese girls can hot fuck too" which shows a Japanese gi...
Mountain Dew is a popular citrus tasting soft drink that is produced by PepsiCo. It is the 4th best selling soft drink in America behind Coca Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Diet Coke. But who invented Mountain Dew? This article will answer exactly that question and also look at seven interesting facts about Mountain Dew.
I told you I’d be posting soon! Here I am! :D What I’d like to tell you about is what I just added to the Invented Club Penguin History page of the site. Two 2-page stories! They go in to much more detail than in the original 6 pages. The first battle was told [...]
An apple pie is a type of fruit pie where the main ingredients are cooking apples. Pastries generally cover both the top and bottom of an apple pie, making a double-crust pie. But who invented the apple pie? This article will answer exactly that question and also look at three interesting facts about apple pie.
Pretzels are very popular baked goods that are very unique due to their knot-like shape. Pretzel dough is made out of only water, brown sugar, wheat flour and yeast. The dough is dipped in sodium bicarbonate solution and sprinkled with salt prior to baking to give the pretzel that lovely glazed look! But who invented the pretzel? This article will answer that burning question, and also look at seven interesting facts about pretzels
Microwave ovens (often just called microwaves) are kitchen appliances that utilize microwave radiation to cook or heat food and drinks. The microwaves, always emitted from a magnetron, excites water, fats, oils and some other molecules to heat the food or drink. But where was the microwave oven invented? This article will answer just that question, and also list three interesting facts about microwave ovens.
Basketball is a very popular team sport, played in many nations in the world and at the Olympic Games. Basketball is loved for its exciting slam dunks and high scoring games. This article will discover who invented basketball, and tell you six interesting facts about basketball.
Drills are very useful tools, commonly used in woodworking, metalworking, DIY projects and construction. These days, there are many types of drills for any situation. But who invented the first drills? This article will answer exactly that question and also look at five interesting facts about different types of drills.
After coming out of the lift John started to go to flat no.3. Around the open door of the flat viewers were gathered around, some were reporters. The police standing there seemed to be dizzy. As they saw John they came into action, started to scold the people and the reporters gathered around. As the reporters saw John they came forward to ask him questions, blocking his way. The police standing
After coming out of the lift John started to go to flat no.3. Around the open door of the flat viewers were gathered around, some were reporters. The police standing there seemed to be dizzy. As they saw John they came into action, started to scold the people and the reporters gathered around. As the reporters saw John they came forward to ask him questions, blocking his way. The police standing
After coming out of the lift John started to go to flat no.3. Around the open door of the flat viewers were gathered around, some were reporters. The police standing there seemed to be dizzy. As they saw John they came into action, started to scold the people and the reporters gathered around. As the reporters saw John they came forward to ask him questions, blocking his way. The police standing
Honestly, I never thought that the research I did for the writing of our article, The Stink On Disposable Diapers, would have put me on a path of going cloth with my baby girl. Truth be told, I had tried using cloth diapers for 2 days when my baby was more of an infant, [...]
The history of writing instruments by which humans have recorded and conveyed thoughts, feelings and grocery lists, is the history of civilization itself. This is how we know the story of us, by the drawings, signs and words we have recorded.
The cave man’s first inventions were the hunting club (not the auto security device) and [...]
Golf goes WAY back. How far back. From what evidence shows, the game of golf was invented around the 11th century in the Netherlands. There are other theories it could have been Dutch or Chinese, but most counts point to the Scottish in the late 1500’s.
Some say that back in the late 1200’s in [...]
Halloween is not the only cause for celebration during the month of October. For those of German heritage, in particular, you can't think of the word 'October' without thinking 'Oktoberfest!' While Oktoberfest today conjures images of beers and sausages, it was actually 'invented' in honor of a wedding.
By: James LoweEcommerce actually began long before most of us would have thought.Many years before PCs and laptops were in our homes and doing mobile travel for work, business or play made Internet commonplace, ecommerce existed. The first ecommerce occurred way back in 1984, when electronic data interchange, EDI, was made standard through the use of ASC X12 programming. The internet actually began in 1948 via the CIA for spywork. This was before ahem, Al Gore was born. So if Al invented it he is fully qualified for a full blown miracle. Oh well.What was so important about this was that companies now could reliably complete online transactions with one another. The beginning of something big and innovative. In 1992 Compuserve debuted, for the first time offering retail products online to customers. Although this was the first time that ecommerce was enabled for the consumer it was still limited. Consumers had to purchase Compuserve, install it on their systems, and then subscribe to ge
He patented 1097 inventions during his lifetime and this is one of them. Thomas Edison invented the first phonograph (a clockwork device that recorded sound onto a wax cylinder) in 1876.
Along other notable inventions there were the lightbulb and the kinetoscope (the ancestor of the video camera).
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be.
And that which is done is that which shall be done.
And there is no new thing under the sun.
(Ecclesiates 1:9:22)
Apple designer Jonathan Paul Ive must be a passionate bible reader. Or a big fan of German industrial designer Dieter Rams. Some of Rams’ design classics from the Sixties show striking similarities with today’s Apple products …
Top left: BRAUN T3 pocket radio
Top right: APPLE iPod
Bottom left: BRAUN ET33 calculator
Bottom right: APPLE iPhone
(Via FLANKENLAUF and SPIEKERBLOG)
Tribute or plagiarism? What do you think?
By the way: There’s some serious “tributing” going on in our fast moving advertising business as well.
ADMIRROR detects “mysterious coincidents” in print ads. Very entertaining!
Nothing churns up a raging thirst like a summer picnic. Between tossing horseshoes and Frisbee and chasing the dog around the park, a nice cold one on a hot day is a must. As the weather heats up, we at InventHelp(r) would like to take this time to remind you just how the phrase 'Ice Cold Drinks' came to be.
“Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists. A mixture of bowling, billiard and bowls, the game was played at Narmoutheos, in the Fayoum region, in a spacious room which appears to be the prototype of a modern-day bowling hall.”
Well I’m totally not suprised, the Egyptians created philosophy, astronomy, mathmatics, and were so fly the greeks swagger jacked their entire culture as well as those aformentioned sciences.
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Related PostsWe have seen the future, and it's the SmartMirror.Sunglasses change shade and color with the press of a button…Hover Boards, No seriously BUTTHEAD!!
The second conference will be at Lessius Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium, on August 8 - 11, 2007. Everyone with a serious interest in Tolkiens invented languages is invited to participate, and encouraged to prepare, bring, and deliver a paper on any aspect of Tolkiens languages.
I was tagged for this meme by Twisted Sister...totally pissed off! . Here we go....Please I need your help!I'm typing this from a very secret location. In fact I have had to move 4 times and I have only reached the 30th word of this post. This morning I was tinkering around with an old IBM 386 and I accidentally invented Web 3.0 whilst I was trying to remember the DOS command to load up Battle Chess. I don't know how I did it and I'm very scared to release the application to anyone as I have not yet managed to understand what Web 2.0 is so have no idea how much of an affect my accidental stumble is going to cause on the workings of our crazy world. There may be a right time or place but I will have to keep my discovery secret until that time or place materializes.So I have a plan...All I need is for everyone to post with the title "We Invented Web 3.0" then use this message or amend as you wish and add to the list any other bloggers who are to be named as accomplices (It does not ma
I was tagged for this meme by Twisted Sister...totally pissed off! . Here we go....Please I need your help!I'm typing this from a very secret location. In fact I have had to move 4 times and I have only reached the 30th word of this post. This morning I was tinkering around with an old IBM 386 and I accidentally invented Web 3.0 whilst I was trying to remember the DOS command to load up Battle Chess. I don't know how I did it and I'm very scared to release the application to anyone as I have not yet managed to understand what Web 2.0 is so have no idea how much of an affect my accidental stumble is going to cause on the workings of our crazy world. There may be a right time or place but I will have to keep my discovery secret until that time or place materializes.So I have a plan...All I need is for everyone to post with the title "We Invented Web 3.0" then use this message or amend as you wish and add to the list any other bloggers who are to be named as accomplices (It does not ma
Cucumber Salad
4-5 c sliced fresh cucumbers
3/4 c sour cream
1/4 c mayonnaise
1/4 c cider vinegar
1/4 c Splenda or sugar (or 6 packs of Equal)
salt and pepper
1 medium onion, sliced thin
Mix and chill for at least an hour before serving. I usually serve this and then add another 1-2 cucumbers to the sauce so I get two meals out of this rather than waste the sauce leftover after serving.
Have you ever tried to give an animal a pill? It's a very tricky procedure. At one and the same time you have to hold all four legs, open it's mouth, hold it still and, balancing the pill on your finger, force your finger to the back of it's mouth, risking life, fingers and the possibility of losing various amounts of skin.So, I propose this: a device for holding the animal still. It shall be called Parapet (Paralysed Pet obviously).Imagine a mitre saw. There shall be four holes, two at the front two at the back into which the legs can be placed and they're all fixed into place, with struts between them. This shall all attach to a neck collar so the head can also stay still. And a horsey type bit to keep it's mouth open. If Peter Jones, entrepreneur extraordinaire, is reading, I'll let you have 20% in exchange for £250,000.href="http://misanthropiste.blogspot.com/atom.xml">Feed here!
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This is the American Version of Dragon's Den, except they let insane people on the program to get better ratings. Let's all laugh at the mentally ill man.
(Yakima, WA) Local Stop-N-Go manager, Lou Jeffries, 56, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the regional news station KSTW-TV claiming that they used the word UNDERAGE without his consent. The lawsuit was filed for damages in the amount of one million dollars. The first of many hearings is set to begin early next week.The offending incident occurred on October 30th 2006, when KSTW-TV anchorman Ridge Fallbrook reported on a story about the rise of UNDERAGE drinking on Halloween.“Those sons-a-bitches don’t know who they’re dealing with,” said Jeffries, who is representing himself in the lawsuit.
Okay, okay. I know what you're thinking.There's no WAY you'll be wrong about today's Friday Factoid.So... "Who invented the telephone?"If you answered Alexander Graham Bell... Incorrect.The guilty party was actually a Florentine inventor named Antonio Meucci.Meucci moved to the USA from Italy back in 1850. He went straight to work on a brand new "communications device," and in 1860, publicly demonstrated the first working telephone.He called it the teletrofono.In 1871, Meucci filed something called a "caveat," which was kind of like a stop-gap patent. That's five years before Bell filed his telephone patent.But later that year, Meucci fell ill.The Staten Island ferry's boiler had exploded and Meucci was badly scolded. Living on state benefit, he was unable to pay the $10 required to renew his caveat in 1874.Stay tuned: Thrilling, exciting bit coming up.Bell then registered his patent in 1876.Meucci, understandably a bit miffed, tried to sue. And surely he had a great case, he tho
Ferdinand Zeppelin was born on July 8, 1838 on the German shores of Lake Constance (Konstanz on der Bodensee, bordered by Austria, Switzerland and Germany).Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (center) Photo 1863,serving for the Union in the American Civil WarHe entered the Prussian army in 1858 and went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in 1891 with the rank of brigadier general.The First ZeppellinZeppelin took keen interest in balloon flight and devoted himself to the design and construction of airships. Graf (Count) von Zeppelin would invent the rigid-frame airship (Luftschiff) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The LZ1 made her maiden voyage on July 2, 1900. This ship had a rigid frame and served as the prototype of many subsequent models.The first zeppelin airship consisted of a row of 17 gas cells individually covered in rubberized cloth; the whole was confined in a cylindrical frame
Scientists from Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in California have invented spiral-wound liquid membrane module for production of ethanol from fermented broths of corn, or straw and other kind biomass feedstocks, which only contains 5 to 12 percent of ethanol.
The module combines two separation process, extraction and membrane permeation, in one piece of equipment. One membrane [...]
