Bhavya Chowdhury Number of words – 363 There is a wonderful story of a group of American car executives who went to Japan to see a Japanese assembly line. At the end of the line, the doors were put on the hinges, the same as in America. But something was missing. In the United States, a line … Read more
Number of words – 455 Five miles to the south of Naṣik, on the Naṣik Mumbai Highway, lies the Triraṣmi mountain (Pali: Tiranhų; Sanskrit: Triraṣmi) in which 24 Buddhist caves were excavated between 150 BCE to 600 CE. These caves face northwards and thus enjoy sunlight throughout the day. The caves were not excavated in a numbered sequence … Read more
Number of words – 705 The caves in Barabar and Nagarjuni hills are the first known excavated caves. They were excavated by Ashoka the Great, for the Ajivika monks, a religious sect extant during the Buddhist and Jain period. The Buddhist took up this ‘creation in rock’ to newer heights and thus we see magnificent … Read more
Number of words – 144 Galileo brought physics into mathematics. Olympiad astronomy, by modelling his way of studying motion and the methods in astronomy. In 1612, he wrote a memorandum on how to investigate nature, stating the procedure in four parts: 1. Start with the phenomenon based on the sense observations we see everyday. 2. … Read more
Number of words – 132 An intriguing combination of Harvey’s idea of the heart as a pump with the idea of air pressure was made in early 1700 by Stephen Hales. This English clergyman used a barometer arrangement to make a direct measurement of the blood pressure of a horse. He inserted at tube into a … Read more
Number of words – 369 Thomas Newcomen was an iron monger and blacksmith in Devonshire. With a local plumber, John Kelly, Newcomen experimented on a different kind of engine during the first decade of the 18th century. The first successful installation was in Staffordshire in 1712. By 1720, the engine was being widely used, and continuously … Read more
Number of words – 309 The alchemist called some shiny minerals by the name vitriol, from the Lateen word for glass. There were blue vitriol and green vitriol. In smelting minerals to obtain metals, artisans got copper out of blue vitriol and iron out of green vitriol. Later, alchemists found that if they strongly heated … Read more
Number of words – 116 Another stone alignment was the west coast of Scotland is simpler, probably older, and in a way, more striking than Stonehenge. If you stand on a little stone platform and look toward the southwest over the top of a vertical stone, you can see a notch formed by two mountains … Read more
Number of words – 328 To make any longer voyages, the Portuguese needed better ships. And in Lisbon, they created a revolutionary new types of ship. The Portuguese built ships that combined two earlier traditions of the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Traditions which differed because of the conditions of the seas they sailed. The … Read more
Number of words – 293 The metric unit of energy is the joule. It’s named after James Joule, with the symbol J. Although the names of all units are written in lower case letters, their symbols are capitalized when they’re derived from the name of a person: so the newton of force is symbolized N. … Read more
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