Birth of the First Bicycle

The steerable Draisienne was invented. The bicycle was invented by a German in 1817. Germany's Baron von Drais invented the Draisienne, a steerable bicycle. It was almost completely made of wood, and having no pedals, riders propelled it by pushing their feet against the ground. At the time, the speed record for this bicycle was 15 km/h. It was used little by little until the 1830's. In 1842, it was equipped with solid rubber tires. @newplaceofthink.blogg...

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World’s First Computer Virus

World’s First Computer Virus :                 It is said that talent has no boundaries and if a person has the ability he may succeed even in the constricted circumstances.                The above line could be justified when we take a look at the history of computer virus. The first ever computer virus was developed in 1986 by two Pakistani brothers in Lahore Pakistan.                The first computer virus named “Brain” was designed by Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi with the intention of detering the piracy of a software written by them.                  “Brain virus” was not destructive and used to test...

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The History of the Airplane and Flight

Wright Brothers testing the first military aircraft                       The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful experiment in which a machine (aka airplane) carrying a man rose by its own power, flew naturally and at even speed, and descended without damage. What is an Airplane?           Most of us only have to look up into the sky to see an airplane, and many of us have traveled by airplane to places that would have taken much longer by any other means...

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