In this invention Serie you will get to know who is the inventor of the Flush Toilet? Will you be able to find out who invented the Fountain Pen? What stages did Glass go through and who invented it? And who is the inventor of Gear? This is an informative invention serie post that will add to your knowledge.
Invention of The Fountain Pen
The early form of the fountain pen invented towards the close of the 19th century. Fountain pens were very popular writing instruments in the early 20th century. However, the advent of ball point changed all that.
Gears
A gear is a mechanical device that transfers rotating motion of power from one part of a machine to another. Gears are of various sizes ranging from tiny gears of a watch to huge gears of a super tanker.
Most gears are made of steel although nylon, bronze and plastic is used also. The gears used in modern cars etc. invented through a Frenchman named Onesiphore in 1827 A.D.
Flush-Toilet
Plumbing means a system including both supply and drainage of water. A Flush-Toilet therefore, means a toilet in which water use to drain off the human wastes out of the house.
This system introduced in the Indus Valley about 2500-3000 years ago but almost disappeared thereafter. It was in 1778 that Joseph Bramah if England restarted the flush toilet system.
It was in 1860’s that Sir Thomas Crapper, an English plumber, improved the flush toilet system of Joseph Bramah. He made improvements so that water could automatically stop flowing into the reservoir when it was full.
Glass
The Glass, the transparent, lustrous, hard and brittle substance is usually made by fusing sand with soda or potash or both. Legend has it that the invention of glass happened by accident. The Egyptian sailors on a beach in Phoenicia, used blocks of natron to support a cooking pot over a fire built on sand. The heat generated by fire melted the two ingredients and the two fusing together formed glass.
By 1200 BC, the Phoenicians were known for their good quality glass export. Soon the syrians picked up the art of glass making from the Phoenicians. They developed the art further and introduced glass blowing. The glass blowing picked up on a large scale by the Romans.
The English glass makers of the 14th century developed the highly transparent flint glass called crystal. This form of emulated natural quartz by adding lead oxide. The Venetians introduced a more sophisticated version of transparent glass.
Michael J Owens of Ohio received patent for the introduction of ‘Automated glass blowing ‘ for bottles on February 26,1895. The method of manufacturing large flat glass plates for windows invented through Irving W Colburn of the united States and Emile Fourcault of Belgium.
