The American Benjamin Franklin is often credited with inventing the lightning rod, among other things brought to light by his prodigious ingenuity. However, there were other scientists working on it simultaneously, and perhaps the most important of them was the Czech Prokop Diviš, a pioneer in Europe. What is really curious about his work is […]
Inventions
Posted inModern Era
The Mysterious Disappearance of Louis Le Prince, the True Inventor of Cinematograph
In the first half of the 1990s, an old photograph appeared in the archives of the Préfecture de Police in Paris. It showed the body of an unidentified drowned person that quickly sparked speculation: could this unfortunate person be Louis Le Prince? Due to a lack of confirmation, we can only recall the story of […]
Posted inCulture
Electromote, the Story of the First Trolleybus, Invented by the Founder of Siemens
The early steps in the history of motorized land vehicles left truly picturesque but charmingly pioneering brushstrokes. Seeing those cars with huge spoked wheels and horse carriage chassis makes us smile, the larger their level of extravagance, the more significant the grin. That’s why, sometimes, one must rub their eyes at the sight of primitive […]
