4/13/2008

Brilliant inventions that they changed our lives

Chewing gum: The rubber of masticating, true name of the chewing gum, is the American photographer's invemción Thomas Adams that, in 1870, you manufactured some bars starting from the sap of a plant called chewing gum. Dedicating to proporcinar a replacement product to the chewers of tobacco plant, you inspired by the Indian tradition of masticating this plant. Adams added you flavor to licorice, you put you the name of Black Jack and you marketed it.

Instant coffee: The restlessness of the investigators of the Brazilian Institute of the Coffee, made possible that, in 1938, the Swiss house Nestlé invented the dehydrated powdered coffee, Nestcafé. The investigations, started during the first years of the decade of the thirty, went to how the form to find of manufacturing coffee that, dissolved in water boiling, produces it in an instant way. Also, you were necessary to produce a soluble coffee so that you didn't end up in the bottom of the cup, and of course, of good flavor, keeping in mind that this should be packaged to the hole.

Aspirin: This medicine is due to Italian R. Piria that in 1838 you isolated the pure salicylic acid, obtained of the metil salicylate. The history, however inventor of the up-to-date aspirin considers, to French Charles Frédéric Gerhardt who obtained in 1853 the first acetylsalicilic acid. Your American colleagues R. Crabtee and J. Christian discovered in 1958 that the therapeutical goods of the product, have place when transforming the acetylsalicilic acid in gentisic.

Handkerchiefs descartables: Baptized Kleenex for the first trademark that you put them for sale, the cellulose handkerchiefs, marketed by the American signature Kimberley-Clark, intended like a form of avoiding the propagation of the germs and of alleviating the work of the housewives, in 1924. Your use extended all over the world.

Fan: To air the coal mines, French Théophile Guibal invented in 1858 the dynamic fan, stocked of wrapped up palettes that you captured the air through a chimney and you ejected it to the exterior. later on, you were inserted in the domestic environment.

Vacuum cleaner: The start of this atrilugio, you were sketched in 1871, by Ives W. Mc Gaffey. You were in turn about a bomb that started an inverted worked helix, for a petty motor of vapor. Your perfeccinamiento owes to the English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth who after attending a bankrupt demonstration of a manual vacuum cleaner, you arranged a handkerchief on the mouth and you vacuumed the powder of the carpet. Your first commercial apparatuses, spirits in the market in 1901, vacuumed powder through tubes until some petty overseas parked antagonists of the building.

Stapler: In 1868 the British business tax was granted from the stapler to Charles Henry Gould. The first automatic system of grapado, destined to the bookbinding shops, you appeared in the decade of 1890, passing to substitute to the alfilarias and paper clips enlas offices. So far, the first staples were good to hold the sole and the instep of the shoes.

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