Who Invented?

• Invention means creation of new, useful process, machines etc that did not exist previously.
• Following are the some inventions:

Internet

• The development of internet started in 1957 when the first satellite Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union.
• The team of experts set to work as the Americans felt the need of network system for security.
• Defence Advance Research Project Agency was set up in 1958 to work and save the country from missile attacks.
• Joseph Licklider was appointed as the chief of New Information Processing Technique office (IPTO) and his was the main contribution in the development of internet.
• J.Licklider was not a computer programmer so he hired Lawrence Robert to work on his ideas.
• Lawrence headed the team and developed ARPANET in 1967.
• He used packet switching developed by Leonard for transferring data.
• The UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) put out a press release introducing the public to the Internet on July 3, 1969.

Google Search Engine

• Invented by the Soviet born Sergey Brin and American Larry Page in 1998.
• They named it Google, after the Googol.
• The Googol is the term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
• The name itself was chosen to represent the infinite amount of information that the search engine aimed to organise.

Computer Mouse

• The first computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Dr. Douglas C Engelbart.
• The first mouse was made of wood, with a circuit board, two metal wheels which remained in contact with the surface it was being used on and a button.
• In 1972 that the mouse had its’ first upgrade. Bill English developed the design to create a ‘ball-mouse’.
• In 1980 when the optical mouse was invented.

Wireless Remote Control

• Wireless remote control was invented by Austrian Robert Adler in 1956.

Telegraph

• Samuel F. B. Morse invented the first telegraph in 1837.
• The device he developed used an electric circuit, an overhead wire and Earth as another conductor to complete the circuit.
• the first telegraphic message was “What Hath God wrought?” officially inaugurated on May 24, 1844.

Airplane

• In the late 1800s Orville and Wilbur Wright were the men who dreamt of inventing the airplane.
• In 1900 they tested their first glider at Kitty Hawk.
• For the next two years the brothers plied from Kitty Hawk to their home in Dayton, Ohio. These test drives were a great success.
• The first successful flight was launched on December 17, 1903 by Wright Brothers.
• Wright Brothers received a patent for their air machine on May 22, 1906.

Train

The train was first invented and patented in 1784, by James Watt.

The first working model to be made and successfully run was created in 1804 by Richard Trevithick.

It used for supplies or materials from location to location.

In 1825 George Stephenson built the "Locomotion" that trains came into public use.

Ink

• The first writing ink was invented in 2500 B. C. by the Egyptians (Gelatin) and the Chinese (Tien-Lcheu).
• It is believed that this ink was made by mixing carbon with gum.
• It was then shaped into sticks and dried, before use it was dipped in water and made ready for writing.