The Most Useless Inventions Of All The Useless Inventions - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.
Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy.
Technology and science have progressed at an accelerated rate during the 20th century, as the highlights of the inventions of the first 50 years show.
Germany is known for its economy, great inventions & loving beer. It’s also the home of Oktoberfest, Christmas traditions and soccer fanatics!
Ancient China held leading positions in many fields in studying nature in the world. Besides the four great inventions : paper-making, printing, gunpowder and the compass…
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These genius Japanese inventions are some that you'd really want to look for when you come to Japan! Don't miss them when you come here!
Treasures, artwork, machinery and... a barometer made out of leeches?
Treasures, artwork, machinery and... a barometer made out of leeches?
They are part of the very fabric of our daily lives but at the moment of discovery some of the country's most important inventions were thought of as plain crazy.
History books will often lead you to believe that the world’s great inventions and discoveries were the work of a single person with a flash of genius, but the reality is rarely that simple. In most cases, it was only after years of work and input from countless inventors that something was finally created. Still, there are plenty of instances where the rush to ascribe credit for a particular discovery led to large scale controversy, and it wasn’t unusual for these arguments to take on personal and often illegal turns. Here are ten of the most famous examples: 10. The
In 1965 Stephanie L. Kwolek succeeded in creating the first of a family of synthetic fibers of exceptional strength and stiffness. The best known member is Kevlar, a material used in…
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Philip Deloria on massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
Cragside is the country home of William George Armstrong, a 19th Century engineer who is responsible for a number of inventions and amassed great wealth as a builder of weapons and ships. Cragside was the first private home in the world to have electric lighting supplied by an hydraulic turbine generator and the system was designed by Armstrong. Armstrong also purchased Bamburgh castle late in his life and spent 1 million GBP in turning it into a convalescent home for "the right sort of people". And during the American Civil War, he sold arms to both sides. Since Lord Armstrong had no children, he left his empire to his nephew who proceeded to lose it all and go into debt in only 10 years! The up side is that he had no money to make any alterations to Cragside, so the house and contents are much as they were when Lord Armstrong and his wife lived there.
