Essays on Scientists & Inventors

Intellectuals have the power to speak of the truths behind the lies, based on the factual information that they have witnessed; or researched enough about what takes place in foreign affairs. Whether you analyze events from the safety of your home or report front-line from the faces of death; nothing comes of that without some...

Can you imagine our world enveloped in darkness and an eerie silence? no radio, television, empty factories, and no giant industries. That’s our world without Nikola Tesla in it. Nikola Tesla was born in a small village in the Austrian Empire to a priest and a housewife, he often accredited his eidetic memory and creative...

When I was a young child, I heard a saying from Archimedes: Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth. At that time, I thought it is interesting and sounded absurd. As I grow up, until I know what is lever principle raised by Archimedes, I learn the availability of...

Morrie Schwartz was 77 when he was diagnosed with ALS in August 1994. He died in November of the following year. Stephen Hawking had just turned 21 when he was told that he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. That was 43 years ago. Schwartz was the subject of Mitch Albom’s best-selling book, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” which...

They called him ‘The Master of Lightning”. He changed the very way people look at electricity. His inventions and theories are still in use to this very day. This man had many inventions and some of them never made it off the blueprints, but the ones that did achieved wondrous feats such as replacing Edison’s...

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” This means that if you never make a mistake, you never try anything new. All the inventions that we have to this day would never be created if we never make mistakes because we learn from our mistakes. Albert Einstein was an important and...

Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics, was born on March 14, 1879, at Ulm in Württemberg, Germany. A couple of weeks later, him and his family moved to Munich, where he began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. They moved to Italy later and Einstein continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland. In 1896 he...

One thing humans have never actually understood fully is astronomy. Of course, there has always been mythological theories but never an explained theory. Astronomy usually serves as a technique to keep time and predict the future. The word astronomy is defined as a natural science that studies objects and phenomena to explain the origin of...

Did you know that Blaise Pascal was not only a great mathematician, but also a great religious philosopher, computer scientist, writer, and an inventor? Blaise Pascal is considered one of the most greatest mathematician influencer of all time because his inventions and ideas helped many people have a better understanding for mathematics. Some of his...

Science and technology have been around since the beginning of time. Since the 17th-century science has been playing a significant role in changing people’s perspective of viewing the world. Amongst various scientists, Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin were two of the most influential figures in the history of science. Although born 200 years apart,...