15. It looks like no !! The first person who came up with the Idea
was an Italian by the name Antonio Meucci. he filed a temporary
patent on his invention. In 1874, Meucci failed to send in the $10
necessary to renew his patent, because he was sick and poor.
Two years after that, Bell registered his telephone patent.
21. AlexanderFleming left a pile of dirty petri dishes stacked up at his workstation
before he left town. When he returned from holiday on September 3, 1928,
he began sorting through them to see if any could be salvaged. There was a
dish which was covered in colonies of bacteria, except in one area where a
blob of mold was growing. Around the mold was an area free of bacteria--
and penicillin was identified.
26. In 1816, Mary Shelley was just eighteen years old when, she spent a summer
night talking about reanimating human bodies using electrical currents.
Shelley went to bed that night with images of corpses coming back to life
swirling through her head; as she slept, she clearly saw Frankensteinâs
monster and imagined the circumstances under which he had been created.