366 days of science & technology
By, Khandurie, Vijaya
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Class No.: 509.94 KHA
Accession No.: 021458
Year: 2009
Pages: 479 p.

Of the week: 27th July 2009 to 1st August 2009

Did you know?

• Wilhelm Roentgen’s wife hand was the first object to be x-rayed.
• Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system.
• Peter Mark Roget, famous for ‘Roget’s Thesaurus’, invented a slide rule.
• Giordano Bruno is considered the first ‘matryr’ for science.
• Sir Timothy John Berners– Lee introduced the web browser.
• Pierre Curie, the Nobel Laureate died in an accident while crossing a road.
• Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
• Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, committed suicide after eating an apple laced with cyanide.
• Anousheh Ansari, the lranian-born American citizen, becomes the world’s first female space tourist.
• The first ever two-way telephone conversation was between Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson: ‘Watson, come here, I want you.’
• The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart.
• Ada King Lovelace, the first computer programmer, was the first legitimate child of the famous poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke.