Historical
Who invented the telephone? – A Brief History
Who invented the telephone? So, who invented the telephone? It might surprise you but the answer are from simple. Was it Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, Robert Hooke, maybe Innocenzo Manzetti or even, Johann Philipp Reis?
By siva rathour 5 years ago in FYI
Stick a Pin In It
It’s 1849 and inventor Walter Hunt is sitting in his New York workshop, worrying about how to pay off a $15 debt he owed a friend. While he racks his brain for a solution to his money woes, he mindlessly twists a piece of metal wire around his fingers. Suddenly, he realizes he’s done something. After twisting the wire a few times and folding it in upon itself, Walter notices that the wire held enough tension to clasp together and enough spring to open and close over and over. While distracted by financial problems, he had redesigned an item that hadn’t been changed in literally thousands of years. Walter Hunt had accidentally invented the Safety Pin. He spent the rest of the night making a prototype and sketching designs for the tool, had them patented on April 10th of the same year, and then went on to sell the patten for $400 to the very man he owed $15.
By Chelsea Adler5 years ago in FYI
Imperial China's Dynasties
Chinese archaeologists recently unearthed what may be evidence supporting the existence of one of the Chinese empire’s 4,000-year-old creation myths. The Xia dynasty was the first of many ancient Chinese ruling houses, thought to exist from around 2070 B.C.E. until 1600 B.C.E. Yet the actual existence of this dynasty and culture has been debated. Many researchers have seen the Xia dynasty as a semi-mythical period of rule, invented by the later Zhou dynasty to justify their overthrow of the Shang dynasty, who allegedly overthrew the Xia dynasty.
By praveen kumar 5 years ago in FYI
How would the world be different without the discoveries of Albert Einstein?
It was not until 1915 that Einstein demonstrated his incomparable ingenuity in publishing his general theory of relativism. It was during this time that Einstein wrote his first scientific work, investigating the nature of aether and the magnetic field. He began to build on his ideas of building a new science, cosmology, which stated that the universe was powerful, not static, and could grow and become harmonious.
By Cs Sapkota5 years ago in FYI
Reason for Greece to become the huge philosophical hub in ancient times
About 800 BC, the ancient Greek city-states, along with many maritime forces, began searching for land resources in Greece. Fertile land competition has become a hallmark of Greek history, creating many social and political tensions within the city.
By Laxmi Thapa5 years ago in FYI
Most devastating Impacts of British rule in India
The first famine in Bengal in 1770 is estimated to have claimed the lives of a third of the local population (ten million people), although recent estimates indicate that the figure was close to two million [32]. The effects of the famine were due to the incomes of East Indian companies from Bengal, which dropped from 173,300 PS1770-71. The rise in business taxes coincided with an increase in hunger, but not because of the British Empire. The Maharashtra drought is one of the most well-known measures to prevent famine under British rule.
By Shreya Poudel5 years ago in FYI
The Unsinkable Mary Patten
One hundred and seventy-five years ago a pregnant teenager took command of her husband’s ship and made history. Nineteen-year-old Mary Patten did it all for 56 days whilst fighting off a mutiny, nursing her seriously ill husband and battling stormy seas.
By Dawn Nelson5 years ago in FYI
History Of Jammu & Kashmir
The Treaty handed over the control of the Kashmir State to the Dogra ruler of Jammu who had earlier annexed Ladakh. Thus a new State comprising three distinct religions of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh was formed with Maharaja Gulab Singh as its founder ruler. The feudal dispensation in the State, however, was too harsh for the people to live under and towards the end of a hundred years of this rule when their Indian brethren were fighting for independence from the British under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Kashmiris led by a towering personality, the Sher-I-Kashmir Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, rose against the autocracy. The autocratic rule came down heavily on the people’s freedom movement. However, the people laid their lives in the cause of freedom and to uphold the ideals of secularism, equality, democracy and brotherhood.
By manjeet kumar 5 years ago in FYI
