When was the moving picture invented? Moving, not motion picture. It was not invented by England's Eadweard Muybrdge in the 1870s, nor by France's Jules Etienne Marey in the 1880s, nor by Thomas Edison in 1984, as you may have thought, but by the English mathmatician William George Horner in 1834.

The contraption that displays it is a zoetrope, an optical toy in which people or animals on the inside of a revolving drum or cylinder are viewed through narrow slots that circle the drum. As the drum revolvesthe figure or figures on the inside circumference appear to be moving. Incidentally, the word cinema cam into being in December 1895, when the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere called their first screening device Cinematographe, cinema for short.

Who first published instructions on how a computer could be made to work?

Ada Byron (1815-1852), the daughter of the English poet Lord Byron, and later known as Countess of Lovelace. In her late twenties, her forty-page "Notes" was published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs (1843), telling the early Victorian world about a revolutionary machine within man's grasp. She called it the Analytical Engine. Her thesis was discovered in 1953 by B.V. Bowden in Manchester, England, and her working instructions and programming analysis were so precise and correct that in 1979, a century and a quarter after her death, the United States Department of Defense named its new standardized computer language ADA in her honor. After giving birth to three children, Ada Byron died of uterine cancer at the age of thiry-seven.

Can you guess who made following predication?

This person claimed there would be no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

A. Ken Olsen, who was the president of Digital Equipment Corporation. He made this observation at a World Future Society meeting in Boston in 1977, according toan interview he had with David H. Ahl in 1982.

When a waiter in a fine restaurant opens a bottle of wine and lets you taste it to see whether the wine is to your liking, what would an experienced oenophile consider wrong with this procedure?

A wine connoisseur will tell you that the full bouquet of good wine can only be brought out after opening the bottle if you let the wine settle in your glass for several minutes. The wine must "breathe," because it is the abundance of oxygen in the air that dissolves some of the less robust molecules in the wine and produces the sought-after bouquet, the perfume exhaled by the wine. However, if wine is exposed too long to the air, the process of fermentation is halted, the wine turns sour, and the chemical decomposition converts it to vinegar.

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