Improvement in technology has led to development of lenses that can be easily focused to get a sharper picture. With the autofocus technology, a chip automates the whole focusing. The camera lens adjusts itself by moving back and forth and when the recording chip perceives […]
A hovercraft (air-cushion vehicle, ACV) is a vehicle capable of traversing over surfaces, and is supported by a high-pressure, slow moving air cushion, which gets ejected against the surface lying below. Though the principles behind hovercrafts and hovering were first mentioned by Emanuel Swedenborg in […]
The special design of the stealth aircraft makes the airplanes less detectable audibly, visually, thermally and thus on radars. This does not mean that the technology makes them invisible, but they are far less prone to identification than the conventional airplanes. Stealth technology has a […]
Who invented the DVD? DVD also known as Digital Video Disk was invented in 1995 and the invention is a group effort of companies the following companies namely; Sony, Philips, Toshiba and Time Warner. Many other company representatives have also contributed in different working groups […]
The global positioning system better known as the GPS was invented by Roger L Easton. GPS is used to provide reliable information on time and location at all times. The invention of the GPS has created a great revolution in the way we live. Roger […]
The history of the elevator can be traced back to the times of Archimedes and since then several primitive forms of elevators have been used over the years. However an elevator similar to the modern elevators used today was invented by Elisha Graves Otis, in […]
The Hubble Space Telescope was developed by the United States Space Agency, NASA with valuable contributions from The European Space Agency. Though the funding was obtained in 1970, it was first launched only in 1990 because of the number of problems and delays that included […]
The digital camera has changed the world of photography and was invented by an electrical engineer Steven J. Sasson in 1975. The invented device weighed 8 pounds and was of the size of a toaster that was available in those times. The camera produced black […]
In 1924, John Logie Baird, a Scot, was the first to transmit the television picture of moving objects. The question who invented the television is a highly debatable one. The final product that we see today has been assembled by the parts invented by several […]
Long before the cell phones were available, Cordless telephones were used by people. Cordless phone are phones that can be used without the use of wires. So the phones could be used at home and around the home without any problem of wires. However, the […]
