Who Made The First Photograph
Man’s desire to able to take photographs goes back hundreds of years. From the eleventh to the sixteenth century, there was a device called “the camera obscura”, …
Man’s desire to able to take photographs goes back hundreds of years. From the eleventh to the sixteenth century, there was a device called “the camera obscura”, …
The first printing of any kind was done by the Chinese and Japanese in the fifth century. At that time and for hundreds of years afterward, books …
It is difficult to decide exactly who built the first petrol-driven car. Gottlieb Daimler, a German, built his first petrol-driven motor-car in 1887; in the same year, …
The dressing and decoration of hair by human beings is as old as civilization itself. It is a curious thing to notice how important the style of …
One day in the year 1768, a young milkmaid attended a Gloucestershire doctor’s surgery for advice. Smallpox, the dreaded scourge of the country at that time, was …
The origin of many customs is hard to trace, but this one has a definite beginning and it reads like a fairy tale! Many years ago, a …
The Chinese, as early as the fifth century B.C., had begun work on the Grand Canal of China, between Hangchow and Peking, a total length of 1,000 …
The idea of interplanetary travel is very old, but it is only during the past fifty years or so those astronautics have become a really practicable possibility. …
Piracy, which is robbery on the high seas, has been going rim for thousands of years. Even ancient Greek and Roman ships were often attacked by pirates in …
A needle is a very slender tool that is sharp at one end and often has a little hole, or eye, at the other end to pass …
When white men first went to Alaska, they found Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians living there. In fact, Alaska was one of the last large areas of the …