In 1958, President Eise­n­hower signed the Space Act, officially creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From the beginning, the purpose for the ne­w branch extended beyond space ships and moon boots. The law stipulated that its research and advancements should benefit all people, and in its 50-year history, NASA has certainly fulfilled that role.

At the end of the 20th century, only 10 percent of all patents were awarded to female inventors. When you compile a list of the most famous inventions of the past few centuries, few women will show up as the creators of those items. It's not that women lack ingenuity or a creative spirit, though; it's just that women have faced many hurdles in receiving credit for their ideas.

Nowadays Sms, social nets are indispensable part of our life. We can´t imagine going out even to a store to buy cat food without our gadget! Why not to make this part of our being more interesting, for example, by sending a joke to your friend when he or she least expects it? Here you can find some very funny examples how to do it, maybe it would help ou to invent your owns and contribure to the world-wide society of "sms-jokers". Take a pick!

Probably everyone has gotten cockleburs in their socks or clothing, especially if you enjoy walking in riverbed areas or along cultivated fields and moist pastures. Cocklebur plants (Xanthium strumarium) produce hundreds of little football-shaped burs, about one inch (2.5 cm) long and covered with stiff, hooked spines. [Another species that is less common but widespread across North America is called spiny cocklebur (X. spinosum).

Central heating was developed in warm countries. The Minoans of Crete (2700 BC – 1100 BC) devised a system of diffused heating. And around 150 BC the Romans developed the hypocaust system. A similar system of central heating was used in ancient Korea, where it is known as ondol. It is thought that the ondol system dates back to the Koguryo or Three Kingdoms (37 BC-AD 668) period when excess heat from stoves were used to warm homes.

At around 500 BC Greek philosopher Hiraclitus wrote that “the only constant is change.” Not much has changed since. Good prevails.

When Johann Vaaler patented his paper clip in 1901, there already were similar designs on the books. William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut patented his design in 1899. Cornelius Brosnan of Springfield, Massachusetts patented his Konaclip in 1900.

Glasses – also called eyeglasses (formal), spectacles, or specs (informal) – are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, normally for vision correction or eye protection.

Britain's oldest fridge is still working after 58 years.

Here is an article to help make a better decision on which is greener: cloth or disposable nappies?

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, leftover paint is the largest volume material collected by hazardous materials collection sites and costs local governments a lot of money to deal with. The EPA estimates that 10 percent of the house paint purchased each year ends up discarded. There's got to be a better way.

In modern society, the practice of good personal hygiene is usually a minimum expectation instilled within children from the earliest possible moment.

Nowadays almost everything that we have at home depends on electricity. Computes, fans, cell-phones. All this was created by human mind due to invention of electricity. Now I’d like to tell about a provider between these two worlds – electricity and devices – it is a well-known electrical socket.

When we think of new inventions of creations, we often think of Thomas Edison trying hundreds of variations of the light bulb in order to get it right. However, many times inventions come accidentally, often as a side effect of something that the inventor is working on.

Hello, stupid! If you weren’t such an idiot, you’d understand why you’re wrong about everything. But apparently you’re so retarded that you can’t even spell right. And also you’re fat.’

Chindogu is called by it’s initial innovator as ‘unuseless.’ It is not useless totally, since it works to solve a problem - but in practical terms it cannot be called ‘useful.’

Aside from the occasional trackball, almost every desktop computer has a mouse connected to it. However, the mouse has not always been the most common pointing device, and it has gone through many changes during its nearly thirty-year history. Keep reading to learn more about the history of computer mice...

This device is considered one of the genious inventions of XX century. It has made our lives much easier. Fancy that after a long working day you can rest peacefully on a sofa, you don’t have to come up to your regular favourite TV-set. Just one click – and you are immersed of the world of adventures or soap operas with your favourite fiction characters! You can observe the magic world of wizards and witches, travell to faraway countries eating your favourite food and little by little gaining extra weight… But well, the talk is about one of the most outstanding devices of our time – the remote control!

I was considered that the first who invented this sanitary device was Thomas Krapper, an English plumber, he patented the system with a well-known water tank slightly more than 100 years ago, at the time of reigning of Queen Victoria. By the way the word “crap” is not derived by his name. This word derives from Dutch (crappe), and first came into use centuries before Crapper was born.