Famous Discoverers & Inventors

• William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
• Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin.
• Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen.
• Edward Jenner discovered vaccination.
• Sir Ronald Ross discovered the cause of malaria.
• Lord Lister discovered antiseptic treatment.
• Sir James Young Simpson discovered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic.
• Henry Cavendish discovered the composition of water, he also discovered Hydrogen.
• Sir Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravitation.
• William Hyde Wollaston discovered ultra-violet rays.
• Louis Pasteur discovered the science of bacteria, i.e. the germ-theory of diseases.
• Professor Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered Rontgen rays ( X- rays ).
• William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood.
• Robert Koch discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis.

                           

Inventors

• The Safety Lamp- Sir Humphry Davy.
• The stethoscope- Laennec.
• The Steam Engine- James Watt.
• The Microscope- Janssen.
• Dynamite- Dr Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
• Television- John L. Baird.
• The Lightening Conductor- Benjamin Franklin.
• The Thermometer and the Telescope- Galileo Galilei.
• The Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell.
• The Barometer- Evangelista Torricelli.
• Income Tax- The Marquis De Vauban.
• The Micrometre- William Gascoigne.

iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6C to Launch This Year: Report

• Apple is expected to launch three new iPhone models this year - the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, and iPhone 6C - claims a report citing industry sources.
• While the report suggests that the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be the incremental updates from last year's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, it adds the iPhone 6C will be cheaper variant of the handset that the Cupertino-based giant will launch to tap the emerging markets, which also includes India. All three are due in the second half of 2015.
• No reasoning was given as to why the 'S' in the model names will be upper-case. Digitimes suggests that the new iPhone models will pack LTPS panels supplied by various companies including Japan Display, Sharp and LG Display, and will also feature Corning Gorilla Glass protection. The report adds that the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will use the A9 chips while the iPhone 6C will be backed by A8 chips. Other highlight features such as NFC and fingerprint scanner will be present on all three iPhone expected to launch later this year.
• The handset, tentatively called iPhone 6C, is said to replace the iPhone 5c, which was priced in an entry-level to mid-range smartphone segment for Apple, according to sources in Taiwan's handset supply chain. The report stresses that Apple will work on the iPhone 6C's design, pricing and timing of the launch.
• One of the sources pointed out, "The adoption of a plastic case for the 5C, which made the iPhone look cheaper than its family products, contributed to lower-than-expected sales of the model." Another sources however added that Apple might still prefer plastic cases for the iPhone 6C as it helps check the production costs.
• Further commenting about the pricing of the iPhone 6C, a source added that it should be priced around $400-500 (roughly Rs. 25,000-31,000) in the US. "Shipment performance of iPhone devices in emerging markets, including India, Africa and Latin America, has been flat, as consumers in these markets are more concerned about pricing," notes the report.
• The 4-inch iPhone could also tie-in with a recent Wall Street Journal report that claimed Apple is working on a Pink variant of the handset as the successor the iPhone 5c. The report had added the Cupertino giant was looking to use its new pressure-sensitive Force Touch technology introduced in the new 12-inch MacBook to its next iPhone models as well.
• Digitimes also suggests that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be the main supplier of processors to Apple in the second half of 2015. It adds that the 20nm chips for the iPhone 6C and 16nm FinFET chips for iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be supplied by TSMC.

Inventions

Everyday Inventions

            Date                                         Invention                                 Inventor

                        

  1)     1903                                   Safety razor                            King Camp Gillette   

  2)     1904                                   Ice cream cone                       Italo Marcioni            

  3)     1920                                   Tea Bag                                  Joseph Krieger         

  4)     1931                                   Electric razor                          Col Jacob Schick      

  5)     1938                                   Ballpoint pen                           László Biro                

  6)     1950                                     Credit card                            Frank X. McNamara 

  7)     1971                                     E-mail                                   Ray Tomlinson          

  8)     1974                                     Personal computer                MITS                          

  9)     1979                                     Mobile Phone                        NTT                            

10)     1989                                     World Wide Web                   Tim Berners-lee       

                               Young Inventors

Louis Braille

He invented Braille, the raised-dot writing used by blind people, at the of 15. Louis himself was blind.

Charles Babbage

Babbage was 19 when he first thought of the idea of the mechanical computer.

Horatio Adams

Adams was only 16 when he assisted his father, Thomas, in his experiments with chicle, the dried sap of a Mexican jungle tree. This led to the invention of chewing gum.