In Part 1 of The Ink Story I was talking about how Ink occurred. During centuries there were many iterations about How to use Ink in the best way possible. So in this 2nd Part I will talk about pens. The 19th century saw a big surge in fountain pen patents. But while they all... Continue Reading →

History is full of ink. From Paleolithic cave paintings to parchment scrolls to printed books, ink has recorded human history for millennia. Even the Kindle makes use of e-ink (a reusable ink that sits just below the surface of the screen), reminding its readers that ink is hardly a thing of the past. All inks... Continue Reading →

In the Part 1 of the Soap Story I was talking about the importantce of solid soap and how does it work to remove dirt from our hands and clothes. Even if Soap exist for quite a very long time, it is more a commercial product of the 20th century. Today we use soap on... Continue Reading →

I hate dirt and the sticky things that remain on my hands whenever I work on something. Even if I eat a cake or I taste different sweets, after I eat and after i use the toilet, I cannot continue my day if I don't wash my hands. The same feeling I have about dirty... Continue Reading →

Until not long time ago, the most common ways of entertainment were reading books or listening to music. Then by mid of 20th century television started to gain in popularity and watching a movie at home has become very much a new common habit to enjoy our leisure time. However the first TV sets were... Continue Reading →

From the first objects ever created by man we always needed to put parts in a functional assembly. Nowadays, our technology is already advanced and the objects we create are almost entirely made of different parts put together in a stiff and functional product. There are multiple ways we can do this.In case of plastic... Continue Reading →

3D Printing is a relatively new technology which has gained a lot of attention lately. More and more application using this new tech-development have been already successfully implemented in various industries. Now it is going to be used on building roads too. A new research has been quite recently done by a group of scientists... Continue Reading →

When you hear the word “Asphalt”, most probably you think of the black tar stuff on roads and highways, right? But that’s not exactly correct. Asphalt is the liquid that is in the road, it’s the binding agent that kind of holds the rocks together. The difference is that the Asphalt comes from crude oil,... Continue Reading →

At first glance aerogel resembles a hologram. It's deceiving whether it's really there or not. A highly porous solid material, aerogel has the lowest density of any solid materials known to man. It is 1000 times less dense than glass, aerogel has earned the nickname "solid blue smoke". At the time in the early 1980s,... Continue Reading →