Benjamin Franklin gets all the credit for discovering electricity, but all he did was establish a link between lightning and electricity. Charles François Fay, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla...
It would be historically inaccurate to name a single person or even a country as the inventor of school. Horace Mann, an American politician, is widely known for helping develop and modernize the school system. Catherine Beecher and...
A data center is a physical facility that private companies and governments use to store and share applications and data. Most businesses depend on the data center’s reliability and security to run their IT operations optimally. However, not...
The story of the invention of the light bulb is not that straightforward, as it involved multiple scientists. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the light bulb, but he did play a major role in improving and commercializing the technology. ...
The Internet is a huge “network of networks” that connects countless computer systems around the world. It has completely changed how we communicate and share information by making it easy for these networks to link and exchange data. Originally...
The invention of television cannot be credited to a single person. There are many TV pioneers, but John Logie Baird, Charles Francis Jenkins, Philo Taylor Farnsworth, and Vladimir Zworykin made important contributions in the early 20th century...
The concept of 3D Printing was laid out by David E.H. Jones in 1974. However, methods and materials for fabricating models weren’t developed until the early 1980s. The term ‘3D printing’ covers various methods and technologies used...
A tesseract is a four-dimensional hypercube with 24 faces, 32 edges, and 16 vertices. It can be created by thickening up a cube in a fourth dimension. Although it is impossible to construct a tesseract physically, we can visualize it in our 3D world...
SpaceX vehicles are powered by dual-core x86 processors. In addition to the Linux operating system, they use LabVIEW, a graphical programming tool that runs on Windows. Programmers at SpaceX prefer using C++ (and sometimes Python). The vehicle code...
Vantablack is a fascinating material created by British company Surrey NanoSystems. It is one of the darkest known substances that can absorb as much as 99.965% of visible light (if light falls perpendicular to the material’s surface)...
Osmosis is an example of diffusion in which molecules tend to distribute themselves evenly in space. Unlike diffusion, which can take place in all mediums (gas, liquid, and solid), osmosis only occurs in liquids and (very often in) gases. What...
Over the past few years, there have been significant advances in 3D printing technology. These advances have affected many industries, from the medical field and architecture to automotive and consumer electronics. 3D printing has literally changed...