Who Invented ChapStick?
Dr. Charles D. Fleet, a physician from Lynchburg, the United States, invented the ‘ChapStick’ as a lip balm in the early 1880s. The first chapsticks resembled candles without wicks and they were packed in a ...
Read MoreWho Invented Numbers?
No one knows! Yes, no one knows by whom the numbers were invented! Historians tell us that the earliest evidence of counting dates back to 35, 000 BC. Some bones of that era have been ...
Read MoreWho Invented Clothes?
It is not known who the first person to clad himself or herself was. It is likely that that some primitive humans, after killing animals, could have put on their skin to keep themselves warm. ...
Read MoreWho Invented Roller Skates?
John-Joseph Merlin, a Belgian inventor, invented the roller skates. The inventor was not a well-connected man so his invention largely went unnoticed in 1760. It was considered merely a pastime by his contemporaries and still ...
Read MoreWho Invented Matches?
There is some evidence that the ancient Chinese used sulfur matches as early as the 6th century. The name of the inventor is still not known but the historical evidence is credible. In spite of ...
Read MoreWho Invented Sundials?
The Egyptians and the Babylonians were the first to make use of the sun to measure time. This was around 3500 BC. Their sundials were big pillars and they were called obelisks. The word ‘obelisks’ ...
Read MoreWho Invented Arches?
The Babylonians were the first to make use of arches in their architecture in recorded history. Among the earliest known arches, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon is one and it dates back to 6th century ...
Read MoreWho Invented Roller Coasters?
The issue is still disputed because the historians don’t agree on where the roller coaster was built. Some say it was Russia while other historians emphasize that it was France. In both cases, the roller ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Fridge/Refrigerator?
William Cullen of the University of Glasgow demonstrated for the first time in recorded history 1748 how ‘artificial refrigeration’ could be done. But it a German engineer, Carl von Linden, who holds the first patent ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Microscope?
Zacharias Janssen, probably with some help from his father, made the first microscope in the world around 1595. He was a Dutch who dealt in optical equipments. The first microscopes made by Zacharias Janssen or ...
Read MoreWho Invented Socks?
The earliest knitted socks belong to the Egyptians, therefore, it was not a person or two or three persons who all of a sudden came up with the idea of socks and their invention was ...
Read MoreWho Invented Kites?
Two Chinese philosophers Mo Di and L? B?n are the inventors of the kites if the Chinese legends are to be believed. The kites were invented by these philosophers around 5th century BC. But the ...
Read MoreWho Invented Glass?
The earliest known “manual” on how to make glass, dates back to 650 BC. The manual is a compilation of several cuneiform tablets and it belonged to the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. The ...
Read MoreWho Invented Toothpaste?
Toothpastes are a fairly modern invention and there is not a single person but a large number of minds behind it. Although there are speculations that the Egyptians used something similar to toothpaste around 4th ...
Read MoreWho Invented The First Train?
The first patent for a locomotive was issued in the name of Julius Griffiths in 1821. The Greeks were the first to use wagonways. Wagonways were trains which were pulled either by the slaves or ...
Read MoreWho Invented Ice?
Ice is snow accumulated on ground, which means that the nature invented ice! But when it comes to the artificial production of ice, it is a relatively new phenomenon in the history of civilization. The ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Skyscraper?
The answer is generally a contested one. Some call William Le Baron Jenney as the father of skyscrapers because he built the world’s first ten-storey skyscraper (in those times it was a skyscraper!) in the ...
Read MoreWho Invented Gunpowder?
Gunpowder was first invented by Chinese alchemists around 9th century. It was an accidental discovery and it wasn’t long before gunpowder found its place in the Chinese army. A Chinese text named Zhenyuan Miaodao Yaolue, ...
Read MoreWho Invented Paint?
The widely held theory is the Chinese perfected the art of paint-making before anyone else did. The Egyptians also put in a lot of efforts to develop and perfect the paint-making process. Cave drawings dating ...
Read MoreWho Invented Tetris?
Tetris was created by Alexey Leonidovich Pazhitnov of the USSR Academy of Sciences in June, 1984. After the dissolution of the USSR, the name of the academy has been changed to the Russian Academy of ...
Read MoreWho Invented Microsoft?
Microsoft was founded by William Henry Bill Gates III and Paul Gardener Allen in the city of Albuquerque, in the United States, in April 1975. Both were friends in those days. Although Paul Allen officially ...
Read MoreWho Invented Paper?
Ts'ai-Lun is the first person to have come up with modern paper. He presented his invention to the Chinese emperor in 105AD. The Egyptians had been using paper earlier but it is the Chinese paper ...
Read MoreWho Invented Laser?
Theodore Harold Ted Maiman, a physicist in the United States, made the first working laser in 1960. He was then working at Hughes Research Laboratories. Although the foundations had been laid by the famous German ...
Read MoreWho Invented Batteries?
Alessandro Volta, an Italian scientist, made the world’s first battery in 1880. It was primitive and heavy as per today’s standards but for years it was the only device which could produce electricity from chemicals. ...
Read MoreWho Invented Crayons?
Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith invented non-toxic wax crayons for children and their invention went to the markets in 1903. Crayons had existed even earlier and they fell into two categories: (1) crayons from ...
Read MoreWho Invented Cotton?
The earliest evidence of use of cotton among humans takes us 7000 years back in ancient Mexico. No written records survive from that period which shed some light on who was the first person to ...
Read MoreWho Invented Texting?
Friedhelm Hillebrand, a German engineer and a technical writer came up with his idea of text messaging in 1985. He carried out his own investigation and from them he decided to attach a 160 character ...
Read MoreWho Invented Google?
Google Inc. was founded by Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, a Soviet- born computer scientist, and Lawrence “Larry” Page, an American computer scientist in September, 1998. Google, the search engine, was created in March, 1996 in the ...
Read MoreWho Invented Books?
The Arabs were the first to produce paper books around 8th century AD. The art of papermaking was learnt from the Chinese. The books for the blind, written in Braille script, were invented by Louis ...
Read MoreWho Invented Soap?
Michel Eugene Chevreul, a French chemist, was the first person to make soap from fats, glycerin and fatty acids in 1811. The same method is used today with some make up changes. Although soaps existed ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Gun?
The word ‘gun’ is a rather broad term which encompasses muskets, rifles, machine guns, cannons, and anti-aircraft guns. Here, we will deal with them one by one. Let’s begin with the smallest of them – ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Zipper?
The zipper, as we know it, was invented by an electrical engineer Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback from Sweden and the patent was issued in his name in 1917. Early versions: Elias Howe, the inventor of sewing ...
Read MoreWho Invented Glues?
The earliest use of adhesives dates back to more than 200,000 years. It was being used before the humans learned to write, which means there is no way of finding out who invented the first ...
Read MoreWho Invented Printing?
The art of printing, like language and music, has been around since antiquity and it is just not possible with the currently available historical evidence to pin down the first person who printed some text, ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Radio?
Nikola Tesla, a Croatian scientist and inventor, is the inventor of the radio. An Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, was earlier credited with the title but new facts reveal that it is not true. There is ...
Read MoreWho Invented The Windmill?
A machine designed by a Greek mathematician Heron of Alexandria in the 1 AD is the earliest known example of using the winds to power a machine. There are sources, although uncertain, which suggest that ...
Read MoreWho Invented Automobile?
Official history credits Carl Friedrich Benz, a German engineer, as the inventor of first automobile. He was granted a patent in 1886 and his car had three wheels and it was powered by a 600W ...
Read MoreWho Invented Duct Tape?
Duct tape was developed by Permacel, a division of Johnson and Johnson, around 1942. A single person can’t be credited with having invented duct tape because there were a number of people involved. Permacel was ...
Read MoreWho Invented Bullets?
Captain John Norton of the British Army designed the first bullet-looking bullet in 1823. The earlier bullets until then were spheres of metal or wood. Norton’s bullet was different. Its base was hollow, it expanded ...
Read MoreWho Invented E-bay?
EBay was created by Pierre Omidyar, a French-born Iranian who later migrated to the United States, in September, 1995. EBay is a multinational online auction website which employs over 15000 people from around the world ...
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