Pasteurization: Crusade Against Germs Do you wash your hands before and after meals or after using washrooms? Do you keep your food in air-tight containers? Do you prefer your food and milk hot? Have you heard from doctors about how to live a germ-free life? If your answer is ‘yes’ to all these questions then… Read More Pasteurization: Crusade Against Germs
Being a woman, when you live and breathe a missile then what possibly can happen? Well, you create deadly missiles and you procreate a fighter jet (Well, kind of!). Yes, she is Tessy Thomas, the legendary “Missile Woman of India”; designer of Agni – III, Agni – IV, and Agni – V ballistic missiles. ,… Read More Missile Woman of India – Tessy Thomas
The Aniline Dyes, the invention of the world’s first synthetic dye was nothing but a colorful disaster. The world of invention is colorful by default. Here, even mistakes can create new inventions or rather invention itself could be a result of a mistake. At the age of 18 when average teenagers spent their time figuring… Read More Aniline Dyes: World’s First Synthetic Dye Was Just A Colorful Disaster
Being the son of an African-American slave he never had much to say about his life choices. However, that didn’t stop him from changing his destiny. As a teenager, he joined a textile mill as an apprentice. With his meager stipend, he hired private tutors for himself. By the age of thirty, he was running… Read More SCBA (Self Contain Breathing Apparatus): Restoring the World of Rescue Work
Human history is full of fascinating stories of accidental inventions and discoveries. Here inventions often didn’t collaborate with the intention of inventors and emerged as something unique yet quite useful. It is scattered with extraordinary stories of ‘inventions gone wrong’ and different outcomes. The invention of Post-It is also a familiar story of such an… Read More Post-It: World’s Worst Adhesive and ‘The First Twitter’
He lost his father when he was a toddler and his mother when he was at sixth standard. He finished his journey from village school to a local workshop as an apprentice at the tender age of thirteen. That was his academic knowledge and the rest he taught by himself. That self-taught engineer was so… Read More Microwave Oven: Deadly Weapon or A Fancy Kitchen Gadget
It’s not like India does not have its share of legendary scientists; but, most of them never received any recognition for their contributions. For a few of them, even someone else took all the credit for their invention. Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose was an example of an unfortunate Indian inventor whose ground-breaking invention was hijacked… Read More Nobel Prize: Another Indian Legend Without Acknowledgement
It first sold for 5 cents per glass on 8th May 1886 from Atlanta’s Jacob Pharmacy as a substitute for problematic pain killer Morphine and was registered as a patented medicine. American Civil War veteran Colonel John Stith Pemberton was suffering from PTSD and to deal with his chronic physical and psychological issues he prescribed… Read More Coca-Cola: Good Old Days When Coke Was ‘Pure’
How many times do you feel guilty for being messy or untidy? Maybe it’s a constant struggle, especially when your parents or roommates remind you to clean up. But here’s a twist: what if being messy could lead to something life-changing? That’s exactly what happened with a scientist whose “faulty” habits ended up saving millions… Read More Penicillin: How a Scientist’s Messy Habit is Saving Lives?
