Inventions and Discoveries around Us
Discoveries and Inventions
This site shares especially to interested readers information about the amazing world of discoveries & inventions, and naturally, the great minds of inventors.
What is an Invention?
Simply, any new object or matter is an invention. It can be a new material like iPad or iPod, rayon or nylon. It can also be a process, like a frozen food ready for microwave, which is another invention. If we look around us, we are surrounded by man-made inventions.
One thing though, when something is discovered it needs an invention to be useful. Many moons ago, over a million years, early people discovered fire, whether by chance or not, when lightning caused natural fires. So, how did they control and manage fire? By inventing a way of making fire by rubng sticks together or striking flints. Now, we have matches produced in commercial volumes. They weren’t invented by some brilliant inventors until around 577 AD.
Why Do People Invent Objects or Things?
The reason is simple and straightforward: to make life easier. For example, household has been revolutionized through the years through continuous inventions of appliances.
Many inventions develop and inspired from earlier ideas. In 250 BC, Greek inventor Archimedes explained how levers worked. What happened next? Many brilliant minds were inspired to follow up more inventions: scissors and nutcrackers, just to name two. Numerous more inventions follower, big and small.
With all the zillion of things around us that we benefit from, from the inquiring mind of Leonardo da Vinci who influence the flying machines many centuries long after he’s gone, Thomas Alva Edison’s light bulb, Alexander Bell’s telephone, Michael Faraday’s electricity, and Elias Howe’s sewing machine. It will take many hours to enumerate them, if we have to include the beginnings of chocolate, coffee, microwave oven, and even the beginnings of the computer.
Many computer savvy will immediately recognize the name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), who implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the amazing Internet. Microsoft is equated to Bill Gates, and Google a brainchild of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Apple, of Steve Jobs, and many more I’d like to include but my fingers have given up on me.
And as history tells us, some of these inventors became wealthy from their inventions, whilst others made practically nothing out of it in their days.
I’ve merely scraped a bit of this endless topic.
Find out many more discoveries and inventions, from the big time atomic bomb, medical surgical tools, kitchen appliances, to the most current of iPods, mobile phones, MP3 player, and many more.
Let’s begin the journey of discoveries and inventions.
Readers may check out History of World Wide Web Revisited, Early Women Scientists, and Thomas Alva Edison Biography. Many more will be shared along the way.
