A novel way to invent
On September 10th 1846 Elias Howe Jr was granted a patent for the sewing machine. However, I am fascinated by the story he told of how he came up with the invention. He claimed it came to him in a dream! Basically, he dreamed he was building a sewing machine for a savage king in […]
Would you fill a small wooden box with paper and light it!
Well, that is exactly what Joseph Montgolfier did, and it led to him, with his brother, Étienne Montgolfier, coming up with the first air balloon, which in turn led to the first untethered manned hot-air balloon flight by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes on November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, in a balloon created by the Montgolfier […]