The use of cosmetics as a medium to enhance facial contours can be traced back to as early as 4000B.C.Many evidence indicate towards the fact that the ancient Egyptians were the first to apply cosmetics. It is believed that Egyptians maintained similar standards of beauty to those prevalent in the modern times. The current make-up trends such as application of rogue, eyelid paint, lip colour etc. are all legacies of the ancient Egyptian era. The […]

A breathalyzer is a device that is used to calculate or estimate BAC or the blood alcohol content from the breath of a person. The origin and first development of the breathalyzer was in the year 1927 when Emil Borgan came out with an experiment with air in a football. It led to the discovery of the fact that 2 liters of air had more alcoholic content than 1 cc of urine. In the year […]

Chemotherapy was invented by Alfred Gilman and Louis S. Goodman who were hired by the U.S department of Defense to research upon the use of nitrogen mustard as a healing agent. Nitrogen gas was a chemical used in the Second World War to attack enemies resulting in severe burns. Gradual studies pointed out that people exposed to nitrogen gas had a low count of white blood cells. This discovery led to the research of the […]

The material that is being used in construction of building is called as concrete. It is a hard substance usually made from different types of sand or other components that are bonded together with the mixture of water and cement. Cement and aggregates forms part of the concrete. Aggregate may be the combination of sand, gravel, crushed stone, ashes, slag, burned clay, etc., Fine aggregate is used in making smooth concrete surfaces and coarse aggregate […]

The crock-pot was first developed by the Naxon Utilities Corporation of Chicago as the ‘Naxon Beanery All-purpose Cooker’. Later in 1971, The Rival Company took over Naxon utilities and re-introduced an improved version of the cooker under the name it is now popularly known by; The Crock-Pot. The Beanery was a slow cooker meant for cooking beans and it was not perceived as a very commercially viable product by the Rival Company. However, they soon […]

Sandwiches are highly recognized as the perfect fast food item. The most delicious chuckwagon sandwich was introduced by Charles Goodnight in the year 1866. The basic chuckwagon sandwich consists of a breaded beef patty placed on the bun with additional toppings including tomato, lettuce, etc. The sandwich can be cooked in less than 20 minutes. Instead of a beef patty, pork is also used for preparing the sandwich. There are few countries in which the […]

William Keith Kellogg invented the most popular breakfast cereal known as cornflakes. Kellogg is the family name of the inventor, which is still used as the brand name of his invention. William was working as an assistant to his brother, focussing on the nutritional disorders. In the year 1894, he identified a process of making flakes from maize. The brothers introduced many food products made from grains and cereals as a substitute for regular food […]

A chicken nugget is a moulded product of chicken, which is battered or breaded and fried or baked. Generally nuggets will undergo a typical deep fry in a little vegetable oil. Chicken nuggets were invented by Robert C. Baker in the year 1950. He was a food science professor at Cornell University. Apart from inventing chicken nuggets, he made other poultry oriented inventions too. And due to his major contributions to the poultry science, he […]

The name cookie has been derived from the Dutch world ‘Koekje’ which means little or small cake. Cookies have said to be originated in Persia during 7th century after the usage of sugar became common in the region. Persians were the first people to cultivate sugar. Persians spread the usage of cookies to European countries through Spain. Ruth Wakefield has received the credit for invention of original cookie. Historic records of cookies revealed that cookies […]

The soft drink has its origin from the United States of America. Coca Cola shortly referred to as Coke was invented by Doctor John Pemberton in May 1886. The inventor was a pharmacist from Atlanta. The drink was named by the Frank Robinson, the book keeper of John Pemberton. This carbonated soft drink is being sold today in restaurants, stores and many other places in more than 200 countries. The drink is manufactured by the […]