Browsing articles by " Peter Pierce"
Jan
19
2011

Who Invented Aluminium Foil

Who Invented Aluminium Foil

Aluminium foil is a type of metal foil that has been used over centuries to preserve food and keep it warm and fresh longer. Aluminium foil was invented by Hans Christian Oersted in the year 1825. Before using aluminium foil, tin foils were used for packing food products. In the 1910, it was replaced by aluminium foil. In the year 1845, Friedrich Wohler, a Scientist from Germany produced some bigger samples of aluminium foils and […]

Jun
9
2009

Who invented Opera

Sydney Opera House

Opera is a form of stage musical, quite different from typical Broadway musicals, and is often considered more cultural because it incorporates classical music and period costumes. Despite the use of classical orchestras, and a distinctive style of singing, opera actually describes a type of stage drama where singing is the main method of delivering lines instead of the more usual method of speaking a part. The renaissance era in Europe, especially in Italy, was […]

Jun
9
2009

Who invented Soccer

History of Soccer

Soccer, which is also known as football in countries where it is the main team sport, is a game played with two teams of eleven players who kick or pass a round ball using only feet, shins, chests, and foreheads until they are able to score by getting the ball through the opposition’s goal posts. Soccer is the world’s most popular sport and generates billions of dollars of revenue from TV rights, merchandising, ticket sales, […]

Jun
9
2009

Who invented the Airplane

Wright Brothers Airplane

Human flight has been the dream of so many since probably before civilization was invented. The airplane, a fixed wing vehicle capable of controlled flight like a bird, able to take off, maneuver through air currents in any direction, and then land at will safely again, that has been the challenge, and it was the first flight of a heavier than air airplane that finally decided the name of the inventor of the airplane. As […]

Jun
9
2009

Who invented the Car

Ford T

Since the invention of the wheel people have been using carriages drawn by horses and donkeys for transport, but the invention of the car truly redefined transport since speed was no longer limited by the speed of the slowest running horse. Desire for a horseless carriage has been around for many hundreds of years, and some of the first experiments predate the industrial revolution. Cars, which are also known as automobiles have gone thru many […]

Jun
9
2009

Who Invented the Paper Clip

John Ireland Howe

Paper clips are such a simple invention most people would be forgiven for thinking they must have been invented thousands of years ago, perhaps by ancient ancestors who first learned to work with tin or iron. Steel is notoriously difficult to work with, and especially so when small items like wire for a paper clip are being produced. In fact paper clips couldn’t have been invented earlier than 1830, the year an American doctor named […]

Jun
9
2009

Who invented the Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle Launch

The Space Shuttle is a spaceplane developed and operated by the US space agency NASA which is hurled into space attached to two powerful rockets and a main fuel tank, tho the rockets and the fuel tank are jettisoned before the shuttle enters orbit. Once in orbit the shuttle is capable to traveling to the International Space Station or simply release and in some cases capture satellites and then glide back to earth to land […]

May
18
2009

Who Invented Legos

Lego Construction

Children’s building block bricks, a worldwide phenomenon for over 50 years are most well known from the Lego company whose product is regularly used to create spectacular miniature models of well known landmarks such as the Chrysler building in New York, and miniature towns complete with parks, railways, and people going about their business. The Lego company are best known for the Automatic Binding Bricks that are made of plastic and have several small studs […]

May
18
2009

Who invented Bubblegum

Bubblegum

For thousands of years people around the world have been chewing gum, the ancient Greeks flavored gum they got from the mastic tree, while Mayan people chewed gum they got from the sapodilla tree, but of course chewing gum in the US comes directly from the habit of native American Indians who used to chew the sap of spruce trees, which by the mid 1800s had been commercialized and was growing in popularity. Competing inventors […]

May
18
2009

Who Invented the Toilet

Toilet

Toilets are perhaps one of the most useful inventions of all time, at least to anyone who has ever used one, yet despite their function are a fairly recent invention in the history of humankind. There are several versions of toilets, from bed pans, to deep holes dug in the ground, thru to the modern toilet with a flushing mechanism as we know today. Who first invented a container to be used for human waste […]