INVENTIONS

1. Austin , Motor Car

2. Bell, Graham Telephone

3. Berliner, Microphone

4. Brequet, Helicopter

5. Bushwell, Submarine

6. Caxton , Printing Press

7. Colt, Revolver

8. Daimler ,Gas engine

9 Davy Miner’s ,Safety Lamp

10. Diesel ,Internal Combustion Engine (Diesel Engine)

11. Dunlop, Pneumatic tyre

12. Edison, First electric bulb and gramophone

13. Faraday,Dynamo

14. Fick Law of Diffusion – Fick’s law

15. Frank Whittle, Jet propulsion

16. Fulton ,Stream boat

17. Galileo ,Telescope

18. Gillette, Safety razor

19. Guttenburg, Art of Printing

20. Hoe Rotary, Printing Press

21. Howe ,Sewing Machine

22. Huygens ,Pendulum clock

23. James Watt, Steam Engine (patented in 1769)

24. Landstrom, J.E. Safety Matches

25. Macmillan, Bicycle (1842)

26. Mauser, Magazine of rifle

27. Mercator, Celestial and a terrestrial globe

28. Mergenthaler, linotype

29. Montgolfier ,Balloon (1883)

30. Pascal, Calculating Machine

31. Puckle, James Machine gun

32. Shockley, Transistor

33. Sholes, Typewriter

34. Stephenson, Railway engine

35. Swinton, Military tank

36. Torricelli, Barometer

37. Watt, Robert Watson Radar

38. W. & O. Wright
(Wright Brothers), Aeroplane (1903)

39. Watermann, Fountain pen

40. Zeiss Lenses; Camera

Interesting Facts

- Vanilla is the world’s most favourite Ice Cream flavour.

- The flattest country in the world is Maldives with a maximum natural ground of just 2.3 meters.

- It has remained unsolved but a duck’s quack does not echo.

- Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest excavation in the world.

- The Fraser Island in Australia is also known as the largest sand island.

- Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

- Any clue about shortest complete sentence in the English language? Its, “I Am.”

- How hard you try, you cannot fold any piece of paper more than 7 times.

- Bermuda Triangle houses the most notorious sea in the world known as Sargasso Sea.

- Only one planet rotates clockwise and that’s Venus.

- Refrain from using shades of blue colour because mosquitoes are attracted to this colour twice as much as any other colour.

- No less than 25,000 islands are situated in the Pacific Ocean.

- The actual function of mosquito repellents is of blocking the mosquito’s sensors and that way they wouldn’t be able to know your whereabouts.

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

THE OFFICIAL NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD are the following.

TAJ MAHAL , India
COLOSSEUM,ITALY
GREAT WALL OF CHINA
CHICHEN ITZA ,MEXICO
CHRIST REDEEMER,BRAZIL
MACHU,PRERU
PETRA,JORDAN

General knowledge

There are three strains of wild Polio virus namely P1, P2 & P3. Type 2 wild Polio virus (P2) was eliminated from the world in 1999.

50th anniversary of creation of LASER is being celebrated in 2010.

Theodore Maiman constructed the first LASER in May 1960.

LASER stands for Light Amplification for Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Charles H Townes was father of LASER.

· World Cancer Day – 04 Feb

Awards:

• 19Th Bihari Puraskar 2009 has been awarded to Hemant Shesh for his collection of poetry ‘Jagah Jaisi Jagah’.
• 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best first Book was awarded to Glenda Guest for the novel ‘Siddon Rock’. Rana Dasgupta won Commonwealth Writers Prize for best Book 2010 for book ‘Solo’.
• Carl Zeiss wildlife conservation award was won by Joydip Kundu.
• Amitav Ghosh won the Dan David Prize alongwith Margaret Atwood for ‘Rendition of the 2oth century’.