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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Ada Lovelace, The Countess Who Knew How To Code

Ada Lovelace, The Countess Who Knew How To Code

ByFabien

Born Augusta Ada Byron, Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and author who seemed for a long time fated to be forgotten, like so many women through History, but things changed and she is now rightly so widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer.

Ada was Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke’s only legitimate child. A month after Ada was born, Byron and his wife split up, and he eventually left England. Ada was just eight years old when he passed away in Greece. He passed away in Greece when Ada was only eight years old.

Her mother took it upon herself to ensure Ada had a strong education in mathematics and science. She tried to lead Ada away from her father’s literary legacy and perceived insanity, but Ada was still drawn to her father’s memories.

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What Was the First Museum?

What Was the First Museum?

ByFabien

Since when do we put our history in public places for the world to visit against a little fee? You go to the museum to learn about the past, but it occurred to me recently that museums are now a creation of the past and I didn’t know why they were created in the first place.

What Is The Meaning of a Museum?

It was in ancient Greece that the word “museum” first appeared. Its origins can be traced back to the Ancient Greek word “mouseion,” which referred to a location or temple honoring the nine Greek mythological Muses, goddesses of the humanities and sciences. Music, poetry, dancing, and philosophy were just a few of the intellectual endeavors that the Muses were thought to protect and inspire.

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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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Rachel Mary Parsons: Wealthy Heiress, Engineer, and Militant

Rachel Mary Parsons: Wealthy Heiress, Engineer, and Militant

ByFabien

Born in 1885, Rachel Mary Parsons came from a wealthy family full of brilliant minds—her father invented the steam turbine, her grandfather built giant telescope, and even her grandmother was a known as a pioneering photographer. As for herself, Rachel made significant contributions to the field of engineering and fought tirelessly for women’s rights.

Rachel Mary Parsons, Heiress and Militant

Parsons’s journey into the world of engineering began at a young age. Encouraged by her parents, particularly her mother Katharine, she received an excellent scientific education at Roedean School in Sussex, where she excelled in her studies. In 1910, she became one of the first three women to embark on the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Cambridge University, breaking barriers and defying societal expectations of women’s roles.

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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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The Origins of the First Christmas Card, A Victorian Tradition

The Origins of the First Christmas Card, A Victorian Tradition

ByFabien

Sometimes I feel like I’m a bit obsessed with Christmas as I already wrote about who invented it, what was the first Christmas movie, and the story of the Royal who invented the Gingerbread Man (a Christmas Story). Well, I’m not finished, because now we are talking about:

The History of The First Christmas Card

The first Christmas card was sent in the early 17th century by German physician and alchemist Michael Maier, who wrote to King James I of England and his son, Prince Henry Frederick, in 1611 and said the following:

“A greeting on the birthday of the Sacred King to the most worshipful and energetic lord and most eminent James, King of Great Britain and Ireland, defender of the true faith, with a gesture of joyful celebration of the birthday of the Lord. In most joy and fortune, we enter into the new auspicious year 1612.”

On it featured a drawing of a rose, a symbol associated with Rosicrucian imagery, signifying wisdom and cultural heritage passed down through the ages.

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What was the First Operating System?

What was the First Operating System?

ByFabien

I recently had to upgrade my phone. Too old, the apps couldn’t update anymore, and I needed a more recent operating system. That brings back memories as, once upon a time, I had to tweak my config to play games on my PC, forcing it to use only MS-DOS because with Windows it wouldn’t work. Not really nostalgic about any of that.

But while I was thinking about that, I tried to remember what was before DOS and I couldn’t remember the name. Well, I went on and search for:

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