The automatic rifle was designed by Mexican military officer Manuel Mondragon. Mondragon started his work on the rifle in the year 1882 and patented it in 1887.The rifle was a gas-operated device and featured a piston and cylinder arrangement which was very unusual at that time. The rifle was initially named ‘The Mondragon’ after its inventor and later became popular as M-1908. Manuel Mondragon found it difficult to interest a manufacturer for his design in […]

The idea of the atomic Clock was first proposed in the year 1945 by a physics professor of the Columbia University named Isidor Rabi. He suggested that a clock could be devised using a technique known as the atomic beam magnetic resonance which he had developed in the 1930s.The world’s first atomic clock which utilized the vibrations of ammonia molecules was subsequently introduced in the year 1949 by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Later […]

The Atomic Bomb was first produced under the ‘Manhattan Project’ during the Second World War. The efforts of Nazi Germany towards purifying Uranium 235 to build an atomic bomb threatened the United States compelling them to undertake the Manhattan Project for building the nuclear weapon. A brilliant named physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the one who headed the Manhattan Project for its entire span of six years and oversaw each stage from conception to conclusion. He […]

The idea of creating a standalone device which would enable people to make financial transactions was first propounded by Luther George Simjian, a Turkish photographer and businessman. He started building basic and not so sophisticated versions of the ATM machine in the late 1930’s and filed for 20 patents related to the devices. However, his efforts were met out with scepticism and the financial institution that did attempt the installation of the teller machine witnessed […]

The first apple computer known as the Apple I was invented by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the year 1976. The initial models were hand built by Wozniak and displayed for the first time at the Homebrew Computer Club. Woznaik was the engineering wizard and Jobs the visionary of this invention. They incorporated their company Apple Computers Inc., a few months after the launch of Apple I in the year 1977. A subsequent model […]

Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney of Westbro; Massachusetts in the year 1793.He designed a cutting-edge machine which enabled automated separation of cotton fibres from the seeds. Prior to this invention cotton farming was a laborious and time-consuming process as the raw cotton fibres were manually picked from the seeds. Whitney’s cotton gin was able to produce 50 pounds of clean cotton in a day hence giving a great boost to the cotton producing […]

During the interaction of human and computer, copy and paste is considered as user interface program for transferring the data, files, text, etc., from source to destination. Computer mouse is closely connected with performing the paradigm by drag and drop. Copy and paste differs from cut and paste, in which the original source of the text or object gets deleted or removed from the source. Instead, the data or text is moved to the destination […]

The catapult was invented in 399B.C by Dionysus the Elder, ruler of the Greek town of Syracus in Sicily. Dionysus devised the catapult as a warfare weapon to be used against the Carthaginians. The design of the early catapults was very similar to crossbows as they were the only inspiration available then. Dionysus gathered a team of accompolished artisans for developing the Catapult. He showered his artisans with extravagant gifts and huge salaries in lieu […]

Cycling has been around for quite some time and although unverifiable, certain traces of the use of bicycle can be dated back to as early as the 16th century. The first known model of the cycle was the ’Laufmaschine’ or the ‘Running Machine’ invented by German Baron Karl Drais Von Sauerbronn. Based on an extremely primitive design this steerable bicycle was made only of wood. It was also quite inconvenient for the rider to operate […]

There is no clear evidence to indicate as to where and when cricket originated. It is believed that the sport has been derived from a very old and simple leisure activity where one player hurls a small object like a rock or ball and the other hits it back with an appropriate club. It is therefore very difficult to trace the roots of cricket back in time as it has evolved way ahead of the […]