More Anecdotes about Inventions

In 1790 an organ was built for the Church of Las Pinas, Manila, P.I., made entirely of bamboo.

The French physician Dr. Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope. The idea came while he was watching a child scratch one end of a baton while another listened for the sound "relayed" to him at the other end.

The first submarine was constructed by Cornelius van Drebbel of Holland in the early 1000s. It was made of wood and oil-soaked leather and was propelled by 12 oarsmen. It was called the "eel boat".

The use of the comma was conceived by Paolo Dagomari (1281-1372) an Italian mathmatician.

The first ambulances, horse drawn two-wheel carts equipped with springs, were invented in 1792 by Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, personal surgeon of Napoleon.

Dr. Richard Gatling (1813-1903), inventor of the Gatling machine gun, is responsible for the term "gat".

A computer in Japan can print a 50-foot-wide, four color billboard in one motion. It takes one and a half hours to complete this task.

Tennis was invented by Major Walter C. Wingfield of England in 1873 and patented under the name of Sphairistike.

The first lawn mower, invented in the 1820's by Edwin Budding of Gloucester, MA, was intended to be used for cutting the nap from cotton cloth.

Alfred B. Nobel the man credited with being the donor of the greatest award of peace was the inventor of dynamite, which caused the death of millions of solidiers in wars around the world.

The mathematical symbol invented by Tawarik Makutin, a blind Arab mathematician who called it, "the nothingness that I see, encircled by a line". This symbol is the zero.

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