Arcade games began with 19th-century penny-in-the-slot- machines and have since progressed to the latest high-tech computer games. but the most iconic and long-lasting of all arcade machine is pinball, in all its glorious variations....
As a female scientist working for a large corporation in the 1950’s, Stephanie Kwolek encountered cynicism and misogyny from many of her male colleagues until she invented Kevlar, a synthetic fiber with almost miraculous properties. Invented in 1963 by scientist Stephanie Kwolek (U.S.), as part of...
Ask anyone whom they think built the first railway locomotive and they will probably say George Stephenson. But, in fact, the railway locomotives are invented by Richard Trevithick and first demonstrated in February 1804. Richard Trevithick (England) was born in the heart of the Cornish tin-mining...
Diabetes was recognized as a disease by the ancient Egyptians and named by the ancient Greeks, but it was not until 1921 that its cause was identified, and a treatment, insulin, was isolated by chemist Sir Frederick Banting. Diabetes is link to the pancreas was confirmed...
Monopoly became popular as cheap entertainment during the Depression of the 1930’s, but it has since come to mean big bucks-at the turn of the millennium it, was the best-selling and most widely played board game in the world. On August 31, 1935, Charles B. Darrow...
Television first started as a Silhouette images before changes and improvements. In 1925, John Logie Baird (Scotland) demonstration of Silhouette images in London to be the first television pictures. The BBC initially adopted his mechanical system but replaced it in 1937 with Marconi/EMI’s electronic one....