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 and Three Position Traffic Signal: 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: Fancy Kitchen Gadget Mend To Be Deadly Weapon

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 Missed: Because He Didn’t Patented His Invention

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: The Groundbreaking Outcome of A Scientist’s Messy Habit