Who Invented the Violin?

Who Invented the Violin?

ByFabien

Last year, I wrote about the invention of the Piano. Since then, I’m thinking of continuing my exploration of the subject as I thought it was quite interesting. But as time goes on, I wrote about a lot of things, but not much about music-related subjects (I wrote about what was the first rap song recently though). I’m listening to classical music lately when I’m working, and this brings the idea back to the forefront. So today, we are talking about:

Who Created the Violin?

The birth of the violin can be traced back to the Brescia area of Northern Italy in the early 16th century. It was around 1485 that the region became known for its skilled string players and renowned instrument makers, including creators of viols, violas, and other stringed instruments of the Renaissance.

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Who Invented The Dragon?

Who Invented The Dragon?

ByFabien

You probably have heard about the Komodo Dragon. It always bothered me that it was called a “dragon” as its appearance didn’t correspond with what I imagine a dragon looks like. It’s ridiculous to see things like that, but the human brain is strange. Anyway, I was looking into where the name came from, and that led me to read about what I think of when were are talking about “Dragons.”

Who Created The Dragon?

The word “dragon” is dating back to the 13th century when it first entered the English language. It was derived from two ancient languages: Latin and Greek. In Latin, the word “dracōnis” referred to a dragon, and in Greek, it was known as “drakōns.”

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Who Invented the Can Opener?

Who Invented the Can Opener?

ByFabien

When I started this website, my motivation was learning about the inventors behind the great human inventions. I didn’t realize that, basically, everything had to be invented. Some things as innocuous as the can opener didn’t exist for the longest time! In fact, it was created way more recently than I would have expected.

Who Created the Can Opener?

The history of the can opener is connected to the one of canned food, but that’s a subject for another article. For now, we are looking at the history of the opening of those cans, but for context, let’s resume.

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Who Invented Parmesan Cheese?

Who Invented Parmesan Cheese?

ByFabien

Parmesan Cheese is my favorite cheese. I buy it in quantity from Italy because I eat a lot of it, and it’s weirdly cheaper for me than buying a small package at the supermarket here in France. Recently, as I was searching for recipes to find a way to add more Parmesan cheese to my diet, I went looking into its history.

Who Created Parmesan Cheese?

Parmigiano Reggiano (the original name of Parmesan cheese) first appeared in the area surrounding the Italian cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia, during the Middle Ages. To preserve the excess milk they were producing at the time, Benedictine monks who lived in this region invented the cheese.

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Who Invented Golf?

Who Invented Golf?

ByFabien

I used to play golf. I went to see the movie “The Legend of Bagger Vance” in the theater and I liked it. What stayed with me however was that golf seemed to be a type of sport made for me–a nonathletic person who wants to be alone.

It was. But it’s also a costly sport, so I stopped, not having enough money to play. Anyway, I recently moved and I dug up my old golf club. I don’t know what I’m going to do with them from now, but it led me to where we are today, to answer the following question:

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What is Pixel Art and Who Invented It?

What is Pixel Art and Who Invented It?

ByFabien

I grew up on 8-bit games and their aesthetic has for me nostalgic values. I’m certainly not alone in that case and it even became an art in itself. I don’t know why I started to think about it recently, but I went online to look into Pixel Art and ended up searching about its origins. So why not report here what I found?

What is called “Pixel Art?”

Pixel art is a form of digital art that utilizes pixels as the sole building block to create images. It is closely associated with the graphics of low-resolution systems like 8-bit and 16-bit computers, arcade consoles, LED displays, and graphing calculators. Each pixel represents a single point of color on a grid, and when combined with other pixels, they form larger compositions.

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Who Designed The Titanic?

Who Designed The Titanic?

ByFabien

A recent tragedy has brought back the Titanic in the news. Beyond people discussing once more about James Cameron’s movie, there were back jokes and some who took the opportunity to educate others about the history of the famous sinking ship. This made me realize that I totally forgot everything I read about it in the late 1990s, so I looked at:

Who Is the Architect of The Titanic?

The most common answer to that question is apparently chief naval architect Thomas Andrews, but it turns out it’s not totally exact. So, let’s take a closer look at the construction of the boat.

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Who Invented the TV Remote Control?

Who Invented the TV Remote Control?

ByFabien

You may think I’m old, but do you remember the Married… With Childen episode in which Peg took Al’s TV remote control to get what she wants from him? I don’t know why it’s one of those that I keep remembering. Maybe I feel lazy each time I’m using my remote. It’s not like I have a choice, no TV works without one nowadays. Well, this introduction is just to get us to talk about the subject of this article:

Who Created the TV Remote Control?

In the beginning, there was no television remote control. We had to get up and change channels by using the button on the box. It’s a good thing that there were almost no channel. Today, as I was saying, it’s another story and we couldn’t see it without the remote to switch on the TV–unless you can find it on a streaming service! Maybe the TV remote control was a luxury at some point, but it became part of our lives.

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Who Invented the Typewriter?

Who Invented the Typewriter?

ByFabien

Nowadays, typewriters are looked at with some kind of nostalgic romanticism, artifacts of a bygone era. Strangely enough, we have relegated them to a museum only recently, as the computer took their places on the writers’ desks less than three decades ago. But where do they come from?

Who Created the Typewriter?

The earliest documented version of a typewriter dates back to 1575 when an Italian printmaker named Francesco Rampazetto invented the “scrittura tattile,” a machine designed to impress letters into paper. This early version set the foundation for the concept of typing.

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Who Invented the Slinky?

Who Invented the Slinky?

ByFabien

I recently rewatched the documentary Obit. (2016) about the people at the New York Times who wrote the obituaries. I find it entertaining and inspirational at some levels.

During an explanation about how the length of the article is decided, someone says that the inventor of the Slinky and Borbatchev wouldn’t get the same word count as one had a bigger impact on the world, but that doesn’t mean that both can’t be interesting subjects for articles. I didn’t know who invented the Slinky, so now I need to know!

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Who Invented Coca-Cola?

Who Invented Coca-Cola?

ByFabien

The other day I wrote about the invention of the Soda. I only put one line in my article about the creation of Coca-Cola, but being the one soda I like to drink, I thought I was going to take a quick look to learn more about it.

Who Created Coca-Cola?

As the story goes, everything started with Confederate Colonel John Pemberton in the late 19th century. Due to his combat injuries, this American Civil War veteran–who had a medical degree–became dependent on morphine, and he set out on a mission to develop an alternative.

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Who Invented the Commonplace Book?

Who Invented the Commonplace Book?

ByFabien

After watching a video about science-fiction books on youtube, I got recommended a video about keeping a common place book made by the same person. That’s how I discovered that this type of diaries had a name. The name stuck with me and, the other day, I started to search about it and it turns out that there’s an history behind that type of books.

What is a Commonplace Book?

A commonplace book is a personal journal or notebook in which facts, ideas, observations, quotations, and other interesting bits are collected–and possibly organized.It serves as a repository for thoughts, insights, and inspiration.

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