Fascinating facts about the invention of the Traffic Light

Ever wondering what leads to the invention of the traffic light and how it comes about? Find out from the interesting story below! Even during the horse and buggy days, traffic in big cities was often heavy. Police officers had to be stationed full time directing traffic at busy intersections.   The world’s first traffic light came into being before the automobile was in use, and traffic...

Fascinating facts about the invention of Wireless Remote Control

Do you know about how wireless remote control come about? Find out from the below interesting facts about this invention! The first machines to be operated by remote control were used mainly for military purposes.  Radio-controlled motorboats, developed by the German navy, were used to ram enemy ships in WW I.  Radio controlled bombs and other remote control weapons were used in WW II. Once...

Fascinating facts about the invention of the Keyboard

Look at the keyboard of any standard typewriter or computer. “Q,W,E,R,T and Y” are the first six letters. Who decided on this arrangement of the letters? And why? The first practical typewriter was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes. His machine was known as the type-writer. It had a movable carriage, a lever for turning paper from line to line, and a...

Fascinating facts about the invention of Post-it Notes

Everyone knows what Post-it®  notes are: They are those great little self-stick notepapers.  Most people have Post-it® Notes.   Most people use them.  Most people love them.  But Post-it®  Notes were not a planned product.    No one got the idea and then stayed up nights to invent it.  A man named Spencer Silver was working in the 3M research laboratories in 1970 trying to find a...

Interesting Facts – A story about paper clip invention

Do you know how paper clip was invented? See the below story about how paper clip has come about!   Consider the humble paper clip: It’s just a thin piece of steel wire bent into a double-oval shape, but over the past century, no one has invented a better method of holding loose sheets of paper together. The common paper clip is a wonder of simplicity and function, so it seems puzzling that it...