Thomas Alva Edison(1847-1931) same yearn born as Alexander Graham Bell,greatest inventor,patented over 1000 inventions,Gramophone(1877),Bulb(1879) and carbon transmitter which improved the audibility of phone messages.He printed the first newspaper on a train,Grand Trunk Herald,inventor of vote recording machine...Like Bell he had a company which is a Giant-GE(General Electric)
POST: 2010-08-30T17:10:58+05:30
Wright Brothers(Wilbur and Orville) built and flew the first aeroplane on 17th Dec 1903 and patented in 1909 and both were Bachelors!
POST: 2010-08-28T14:48:19+05:30
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,Sportsman,Doctor,Historian,Writer,Creator of Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street,was an avid boxer and in 1894,at Davos,Switzerland,he invented and popularized the concept of Skiing as a s Sport!
POST: 2010-08-27T12:28:05+05:30
Alexander Melville Bell,father of Alexander Graham Bell was an elocutionist and the inventor of visible speech,by which deaf people learned how to speak correctly by being shown the exact position of the vocal chords for each sound.
POST: 2010-08-26T13:43:49+05:30
Amazingly,until Joseph Lister,English Surgeon (1827-1912) Doctors and Surgeons did not wash or sterilize either their hands or their medical instruments before operating on a patient.........
POST: 2010-08-24T13:47:14+05:30
Carnegie Commissioned Napolean Hill to write Think and Grow Rich,the most successful self improvement books ever wrtitten with global sales of over 20,000,000 copies,and Carnegie developed the worlds strangest and largest visitng card!!
POST: 2010-08-20T13:01:04+05:30
Mother,Father,Daughter and Son in law of Madam Curies family won Nobel Prizes in the field of Sceince,Wow! Nobel family!
POST: 2010-08-19T13:25:42+05:30
If the Collected Works of Periyar be published it will rival the monumental works of Mahatma Gandhi.One cannot but celebrate this Periyar bonanza and rejoice over it
POST: 2010-08-17T17:38:42+05:30
Nothing in creation is flawless,infallible,constant or uniform!
POST: 2010-08-16T16:48:30+05:30
Confucius,Dante,Machiavelli and Charlie Chaplin were all exiled from their home born countries!