Fleece fabric, as we know it today, came about in the year 1981, when Malden Mills Industries invented a fleece fabric which they named Polarfleece. New, beneficial features of this fabric were that it dried quickly and it also pulled moisture away from the body. In addition, it was wonderfully warm, even though it...
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The Oxford English Dictionary has been the last word on words for over a century. But, as with a respected professor or admired parent, we count on its wisdom and authority without thinking much about how it was acquired. What is the history of the Oxford English Dictionary? Exploring its origins and development will...
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The very first telescopes were believed to have began to appear around the year 1608 and were credited to opticians Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen as a type of spyglass. These early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece and the telescope simply slid inside itself to focus. Galileo...
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After years in development, wireless devices contained in swallowable capsules are now reaching the market. Companies such as SmartPill based in Buffalo, New York and Israel-based Given Imaging (PillCam) market capsules the size of vitamin tablets that contain sensors or tiny cameras that collect information as they travel through the gastrointestinal tract before being...
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Inventors, Jung Won Seo, Jae-Woo Park, Keong Su Lim, Ji-Hwan Yang and Sang Jung Kang, who are scientists at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, have created the world’s first transparent computer chip. The chip, known as (TRRAM) or transparent resistive random access memory, is similar to existing chips known as (CMOS)...
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Twenty years after the telephone was invented and music was first sent down a telephone line, Guglielmo Marconi sent radio signals. Marconi (1874-1937) was born in Italy and studied at the University of Bologna. He was fascinated by Heinrich Hertz’s earlier discovery of radio waves and realised that it can be used for sending and...
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One of the most remarkable inventions ever in the history of the human race is the invention of the World Wide Web. In the middle of the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg a German goldsmith, invented the movable type printing in Europe. His technology replaced books that had to be created by hand . Knowledge spread like...
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Radar, a word in common usage today, is actually an acronym that stands for Radio Detection and Ranging. Radar is a system based on electromagnetic waves that are used to identify altitude, direction and range of moving and stationary objects. It can also be used to identify the speed of moving objects like aircrafts,...
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Mud, straw, cement bricks, two sheets of glass, and the rays of the Gazan Sun. These are the needed ingredients to cook a meal of meat, rice, beans or macaroni for siege-stricken Palestinian families.   An oven that uses the Sun’s heat to cook food is the latest invention to come out of Israel’s 17-month-old siege...
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This new list was recently compiled by over 100 million Internet votes as the world wondered whether we should compile our own, modern version of the Great Wonders Of The Ancient World, of which only the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt is still in existence. The public loved the idea and voted for themselves and...
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The laws of Chess and the movement of the traditional Chess pieces have been the same since the sixth century of the second millennium. The changes that took place have quickened up the rate of play, such as allowing the Pawns to move two cells on the first move option (FMO). The origins of...
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Evolution is an immensely powerful creative process. From the intricate biochemistry of individual cells to the elaborate structure of the human brain, it has produced wonders of unimaginable complexity. Evolution achieves these feats with a few simple processes–mutation, sexual recombination and natural selection–which it iterates for many generations. Now computer programmers are harnessing software...
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China has been the source of modern technology. For over a thousand of years, ancient Chinese people are regarded as one of the developed civilizations. We are still using the inventions ancient Chinese people created. Mathematics, warfare, transportation are the things to name a few of the fields where Chinese excelled. Many of these...
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The origins of technologies that shape the world around us, illustrated with hundreds of evocative photographs and specially commissioned diagrams, reconstructions, and plans Stone choppers, eyed needles, camel saddles, chariots, and contraceptives: the past is paved with remarkable inventions. The latest book in this popular series takes us on an eye-opening and unusual journey through...
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Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to ’smell’ the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness as reported by the New Scientist. According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a...
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 All monitor, keyboard and mouse producers are praising the materials their products are made of. Resistance, light weight, all these are touted by manufacturers. Some Russians have decided to go for a more, let’s say exotic material for the PC.  These guys have kept thinking (or not) and have designed a monitor housing made of...
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What is Ozone Layer? Upper layer of atmosphere: the layer of the upper atmosphere, from 15 to 50 km (10 to 30 mi) above the Earth’s surface, where most atmospheric ozone collects, absorbing damaging ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. In the 1980s it was realized that industrial pollutants such as CFCs were damaging the ozone layer and that...
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An American Science Community has completed after one of its researches that Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made… even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has in print a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were...
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