Who was George Stephenson?

Who was George Stephenson?

There is something very exciting about watching a train thundering past, isn’t there? Today, trains run mostly on electricity or diesel, but did you know that the very first trains ran on steam? The steam engine was invented by an engineer called George Stephenson. His life is an excellent example of how a poor boy can ultimately win eminence and fame by industry and perseverance.

Stephenson started his career as an engine-man at a coal mine. For the next ten years, his knowledge of steam engines increased, until in 1812 he stopped operating them for a living, and started building them. Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814. It was a traveling engine designed for hauling coal on a coal site. In 1825, he built a steam locomotive for the first passenger railway.

Stephenson gained fame as the designer of the historically important steam locomotive named Rocket. He is known as the ‘Father of Railways”. His invention really changed the way people traveled in the nineteenth century.

Who was the father of the computer?

Who was the father of the computer?

Charles Babbage is called the ‘father of the computer’. He was a professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. In 1823, he began work on calculating machine, but it was not completed. The second machine, which he called an ‘analytical engine’, too did not reach completion. Nonetheless, the analytical engine as Babbage conceived it is regarded as the predecessor of the modern digital computer.

When did Beethoven write the Ninth Symphony?

When did Beethoven write the Ninth Symphony?

Ludwig van Beethoven is one the greatest composers of all times. He wrote his ninth and last symphony in 1823, when he had turned almost completely deaf. Although he was depressed, it is not reflected in this symphony which is indeed glorious. It was planned as early as 1816 and written for the London Philharmonic Society.

Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770. He went to Vienna in 1792, to study music, and soon became well-known as a pianist. His fame increased rapidly, while simultaneously, he was growing deaf. This made him dejected, but he refused to give up. ‘I will seize fate by the throat’ he vowed. He went on to produce a profusion of wonderful music that was innovative too. Beethoven’s influence is such, that he is so to music, what Shakespeare to literature.

Who invented the stethoscope?

Who invented the stethoscope?

A French doctor, Rene Laennec, is credited with the invention of the stethoscope, in 1816. It was a landmark in the area of medical treatment. The stethoscope, as we know it now, is an instrument used by doctors to listen to the sounds made by the heart, lungs and other organs in the patient’s body. But the one designed by Laennec was first made as a paper tube, and later as a wooden pipe, the modern stethoscope which can be plugged into the ears was developed later

Why was Sir Humphrey Davy so famous?

Why was Sir Humphrey Davy so famous?

Sir Humphrey Davy was the person who invented the Miner’s Safety Lamp in 1815. He was a British chemist who had a very brilliant and inventive brain that was also bubbling with new ideas. One of Sir Davy’s ideas was the use of laughing gas as an anaesthetic. However, this came to be used only after his death.