Friday, February 29, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE SATELLITE IN 1957?


In what was once Soviet Union in 1957, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched. The USA did not delay in sending one of their own shortly after. Thee are hundreds of satellites orbiting the earth for different purposes today: meteorological, military, for the use of the telephone, television, observation, etc...inventions that have changed the course of humanity.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE VIDEOCASSETTE IN 1951 ?




The first video that was recorded was done in 1951, years after RCA made the tape recorder. In 1956 the firm of 3M Scotch sold the first video tape and so the format of videoing for the public began. In 1975 the firm of Sony introduced the Beta-Max recorders and this was followed by JVC who introduced the VHS recorders.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE WASHING MACHINE IN 1901?


The first electric washing machine appeared in 1901 thanks to Alva Fisher. By applying a motor she made a container of water and soap move the way a washer does today. The use of the washing machine became popular when electricity became common. Some models actually leave the clothes washed and spin dried through a programme using time and sensors that control speed and temperature used.

Monday, February 25, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE RADAR IN 1931?


Guillermo Marconi said in 1922 that when there was bad visibility boats could be detected. This idea was showed in 1931 by the construction of an equipment to send impulses from radio detector on ships. The first radar was installed in Normandy, on a French boat, to locate the presence of icebergs.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE VACUUM CLEANER IN 1901?

In 1901 a vacuum cleaner was produced that needed two people to handle it. One person held the hose and moved it acroos the floor to suck in the dust while the other person handled the moving of the cleaner itself from side to side. In 1908 William Hoover designed the first electric vacuum cleaners which, at first, were used only in big companies. Years later they were introduced in homes.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE WWW ON THE INTERNET?

It was TIM BERNERS!
World Wide Web means "a spider web as big as the world." That’s what it is. A cloth weaved with useful thread that connects text, images, sounds and also kinds of documents.In 1990 Tim Berners Lee worked in Ginebra, in the CERN. Habitually he would communicate with his colleagues there and at other investigation centres, sending articles in which in other articles there would be graphics... To facilitate this working process he designed the first version of HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language), language to mark texts that would allow blending with other documents. In 1991, his programme was being distributed spontaneously and for free to the academic world. Everyone found it to be useful and easy to use so the number of users increased rapidly.Soon new versions of HTML were made and commercial programmes, too. In 1994 over 50 million people were using it all over the world. Actually WWW is the most used service on theinernet and it is considered the principal engine in the great expansion of the Internet for private and commercial use.Actually Tim Berners Lee workd at MIT. He is the founder of 3WC, a corporation that works for the growth and normalization of WWW.

Friday, February 22, 2008

THE MICROWAVE WAS INVENTED BY...



On the 8 October, 1945 North American Percy Le Baron Spencer, patented an apparatus which was converted into the microwave oven. The firm of Raytheon developed a program that would introduce the microwave into kitchens. The result was an apparatus by Radarange that was used in cooking. However, it was large and heavy and was used in hospitals and military kitchens. In 1967 the first domestic ovens were being made.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

WHO INVENTED THE BALLPOINT PEN



The practical, disposable, cheap and modern ballpoint pen was invented in 1940 by a Hungarian Ladislao Josef Biro and a chemist George Biro, because there was a need for an efficient ballpoint pen that would replace the quill ( made of feathers) that appeared into existence in the Nineteenth Century but whose ink was very heavy. Ballpoint pen are made fro varied matierials such as plastic and gold.