The oldest known sundial was made in Egypt in 1500 BC. It was L-shaped. The top of its vertical leg cast its shadow on the horizontal leg. Who Built The First Universal Sundial? Astronomer Theodosius of Bithynia (160 BC to c. 100 BC) is said to have been built the…
The Italian, Santorio SantorioSantorio SantorioSantorio was the first to use a wind gauge, a water current meter, the pulsilogium (a device used to measure the pulse rate), and a thermoscope. His pulsilogium and thermometer predates similar inventions by Galileo Galilei, Paolo Sarpi and Giovanni Francesco Sagredo who were his learned…
Today, the competition is staged biennially, usually in the month of August. The World Athletics Indoor Championships is held every two years and provides three action-packed days of intense competition in an intimate arena where fans can see many of the world’s best athletes at close range. It was the…
It was founded in 1851 by Captain Thomas Valentine Sullivan (1800–59), an American seaman and missionary. In 1853 the Reverend Anthony Bowen founded the first YMCA for Colored Men in Washington, D.C. It employs 19,000 staff and is supported by 600,000 volunteers, and YMCA branches have about 10,000 service locations.…
World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter of 2008, creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. How the failure to reform food systems has allowed the war in Ukraine to spark a…
Kenbak-1. The Kenbak-1, released in early 1971, is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world’s first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971. The computer was sold to Eduard Stiefel, a mathematician…
I. King JordanI. King JordanJordan is a native of Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania, a small town near Philadelphia. Jordan was born to hearing parents, with no other instances of deafness in his family. After graduating from Penncrest High School in 1962, he enlisted in the US Navy and served four years.https://en.wikipedia.org…
The first doughnut machine did not come along until 1920, in New York City, when Adolph Levitt, an enterprising refugee from czarist Russia, began selling fried doughnuts from his bakery. Hungry theater crowds pushed him to make a gadget that churned out the tasty rings faster, and he did. In…
F-1 (1976) by Namco has been cited as the first true Formula One arcade game. However, it was an electro-mechanical game, rather than an arcade video game. The first successful Formula One video game in arcade history was Pole Position (1982), by Namco. The game was developed by Sumo Digital…
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be granted an MD degree. Blackwell began her pioneering journey after a deathly ill friend insisted she would have received better care from a female doctor. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United…