Description: The history that surrounds this extraordinary device is fascinating. The discovery was made on the shores of the Greek island of Anticitera, in the early twentieth century, fishermen found the wreck of a Roman ship. The ship had taken to the bottom of the sea something that apparently did not make much sense. A kind of wheel that was stuck to a rock after so long. Numerous scientists and mathematicians have been studying and discovering what has been revealed as the first analogical computer in known history. It is a complex system of 27 cogwheels of different sizes and with sophisticated solutions to adjust their movement and reflect the movement of the sun, the moon and the five planets known at that time. The amazing findings such as ...
Description: Augustus De Morgan used to say that he was neither English, nor Scottish, nor Irish, but a British "unattached". A normal boy, up to the age of fourteen, when he drew the figures of Euclid, when he was seen by a friend of the family, initiated him in the demonstrations and explained to him the works of the great Greek geometer. Much passion and extraordinary dedication made him a mathematician and logician, first president of the London Mathematical Society, author of the rigorous concept of the procedure, Mathematical Induction. Here we have it with its famous sets doing of mascot.
Description: How these colossal figures were built is a mystery that is gradually being solved, but in the same way the spectacularity of the imposing statues of the men of Easter is incredible. Imagine how the process of carving stone and transport should have been, as an event of the community, a bit of each of the members, all contributing their effort and enthusiasm. Fortunately, it has been recorded on the rock and is transmitted only by looking at them. Each of them is a precise moment of life, each of them collects and shows the greatness of teamwork. It is not the only example, all the constructions are the result of that coordination, but it seems that being in such a remote place, it is like a convincing proof that the human being must work...
Description: These days is experiencing an intense heat wave, this forces us to take the temperature, when you have a fever or think you may be ill or feverish, you also need to take the temperature. And until Thomas Clifford, did not invent the clinical thermometer, that task was somewhat complicated, so the device of this great British scientist, is of great importance. Remember, you have to hydrate and always have at home the clinical thermometer to know at what temperature we have the body.
Description: Surprise when I tell you that the first algorithm to program an "analytical machine" was made by a young lady from London's high society. And also surprise you when I tell you that he was interested mainly in mathematics, programming of mechanical computers, poetry, and engineering in general. Surprise when I tell you that I was a young woman passionate about the possibility of building machines to process information, already in the nineteenth century. A recognition to the scientist, to the engineer, to the thinker, a recognition to women.
Description: In the year 477 Aelle and her three sons, Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa, came to Cymenshore and conquered. In the year 485 to Mercredesburne and conquered. And in the year 491 to Pevensey and conquered, what makes them the Saxons of the South. Little is known but the truth is that on June 14, 515, Aelle dies as the first King of Sussex and her son Cissa succeeds him as King of Sussex. Here we have the first illustration of the whole family.
Description: To understand Turing's contribution to the world as we know it today is as simple as removing the computer and imagining what our life would be like, it would almost lose its meaning, it would hardly be worth living. But there is still more. With Alan Turing and Fred Clayton they decided to help even more and welcomed two Jewish refugee children, helping them and making sure they received education in the United Kingdom. His human side has remained perhaps a bit forgotten and has transcended the achievement in deciphering the famous Enigma machine and also his sexual condition. After too many years and through the direct intervention of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her honor was restored.
Description: Edavalath Kakkath Janaki Ammal also known as जानकी अम्माल we owe great contributions in the fields of genetics, evolution, phytogeography and ethnobotany. And we will say "if we do not know what these branches of study are !!" Well, let's go in parts. Genetics if we know what it is, since it is the science that tries to find out and explain the transmission of biological inheritance. Evolution is responsible for studying progressive and gradual change. and now comes the complicated ... phytogeography, those who studied biology and geography have the problem solved, to others it is enough to know that it is the combined study of both disciplines. And ethnobotany is already the relationship between plants and man. Well, Janaki dared f...
Description: Who was Jean Fraçoise Champollion? The one who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Thanks to the discovery of the Rosetta stone, which is a piece of about 112x75x28 cm. and 760 kilos of granodiorite, in which there is engraved a decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy V in which divine worship is decreed to the new pharaoh. But what makes this registration important is that it is the same text, written in three languages. Not all the content is preserved, but being written in hieroglyphics, in demotic and in Greek, allowed the good of Jean Françoise to decipher the Egyptian script determining that the ideograms did not refer to an object but to a sound and with this pattern was achieved read and know everything that the ancient Egyptians had left en...
Description: In 1848 a May 23 was born in Anklam Otto Lilienthal. Engineer and visionary. As a child he knew that he would devote his efforts to discovering the way in which man could fly. With his engineering studies and using the works of George Cayley, he built and improved gliders. From the roofs he launched himself to try them and even ordered to build a hill to make his jumps. Accompanied generally by his girlfriend and his inseparable brother Gustav was documenting with numerous photographs. His passion for flying is evident in a famous phrase he pronounced ... "Inventing an airplane is nothing. Building one is something. But flying is everything. "
Description: The important moments, your snapshot. And this is a step towards concord, coexistence, and respect. For the archeologists of the future to interpret the importance, it will not be enough for social networks to reflect it, they need T-shirts, cell phone cases, bags, stickers, cushions and a lot of things.
Description: To cross the North Atlantic without scales, the 20-21 of May of 1927, that is the feat of this marvel of the technique, work of the engineering, the persistence. the courage, the youth and the courage of those who made it possible. At the controls, Charles Lindbergh, a young man of 25 years,
