It was during the summer of 1894 when an unknown twenty-year-old Italian by the name of Guglielmo Marconi called his parents into a room to show them how he could make a bell, on a far wall, ring by simply pressing a button. He had done so by using electromagnetic radiation, first introduced by the …
Inventor Nikola Tesla contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system that’s widely used today and discovered the rotating magnetic field (the basis of most AC machinery). a Inventor Nikola Tesla was born in July of 1856, in what is now Croatia. He came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with …
Ballpoint Pen? What’s That Then? Prior to the 1880’s the only way to write anything down onto paper was to use something that could be fashioned into a nib, such as a feather or piece of wood or shell, and dip it into an inkwell. Or use a pencil. That is unless you had one …
Air Conditioning – The King of Cool Nobody is sure of the exact date of the beginning of mankind. Many historians estimate that the first evidence of controlled fire can be dated to one million years ago whilst others point to the evidence of cooked food as far back at 1.9 million years ago. One …
Post it Notes – The Accidental Billion Dollar Invention Spencer F. Silver (1941) studied chemistry at Arizona State University and then earned a doctorate in Organic Chemistry from the University of Colorado before becoming a Senior Chemist at the industrial giant 3M’s Central Research Laboratory in 1966. He was first assigned to a team of …
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Ecommerce – The World at Your Fingertips In 1974, ten years before home computing made the transition from science fiction to reality, Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was interviewed by Australia’s ABC Network and asked how computers, which at that time were large enough to be housed in computer rooms that were around the size of …
Thomas Edison – Inventor The inventor of the light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture, Thomas Edison was granted 400 patents from 1879 to 1886. Though he changed technology forever, not all of his inventions were successful. Biog Born on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio, Thomas Edison rose from humble beginnings to work as an …
King C Gillette was a creative entrepreneur and from the age of seventeen he dreamed of becoming an inventor and making his fortune. But there is quite a long way between dreaming of something and then actually inventing a brand new product. He was born in 1865 and Gillette’s parents, both successful inventors themselves, then …
Hoisted by their own Petard. Short stories of inventors who were killed by their creations or quest for discovery. Some of these ideas were immediately abandoned, and it is easy to see why. Others, however, are still in everyday use. The Cure for Cancer Marie Curie (1867-1934) is quite possibly the most famous woman in the …
During the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution began to reshape Europe & America, there emerged a new and powerful type of businessman, evolving from the Neanderthal and brutish mill and plantation owners of the previous century. The modern barons were smooth, sophisticated, but no less ambitious and single-minded as their predecessor. Real estate, railroads, …
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