Inventions that have changed the world.

In any handbag there is a small mirror, there is no apartment in the world without a mirror. The history of the mirror goes back in time. The age of the oldest mirror on earth is about seven thousand years. Before the invention of mirror glass, stone and metal were used: gold, silver, bronze, tin, copper, rock crystal. There is a legend that Medusa Gorgon has turned into a stone, seeing her image in the shiny polished shield of beautiful Perseus. Scientists believe that the earliest mirrors were found in Turkey polished pieces of obsidian, numbering about 7500 years...

Lipstick (French pomade, Italian pomata, and Latin pomum - apple) - a cosmetic product for lip coloring and moisturizing.Lipstick was first used in Mesopotamia about 5000 years ago. Lip dye was already known in ancient Egypt. There it was made of red pigment, beeswax, and animal fat. Egyptians preferred dark lipsticks. The trend of Ancient Egypt was thin graceful lips of blood-red color, as at beauty of that time Nefertiti. Lip dye was made by mixing bromine, iodine, and red algae. Sometimes a special pigment carmine was added to the lipstick, which was obtained from a dried insect, or wheat...

In China, locals applied cedar extract to hair to improve hair growth, which not only strengthened the hair but also gave it a pleasant aroma. In Indonesia, rice straw ashes and husks were used as shampoos and mixed with water to form foam. However, after that, the hair became very dry. Coconut oil, which has moisturizing properties and is still used as one of the components in the manufacture of natural hair masks, helped them to return their natural shine. Arab women took care of the hair, brewing...

Most PC owners hardly know the name of Douglas Carl Engelbart. However, this omission does not prevent almost 1 billion people from using his creations every day, the most popular of which is a computer mouse. On January 30, 1925, near Portland, Oregon, a family of ordinary hardworking farmers appeared on the account of a boy. The boy is like a boy: he went to school, after which he entered a local university, aiming for a diploma of electrician engineer. But suddenly the Second World War confused all the plans, defining the young Douglas on the Philippine naval base of the radio technician...

The doctor's team was entrusted with the creation of the ARPANET Network Information Center. And it was as a side effect of the NLS project that the first manipulator was born, which was called a computer mouse (or in the language of a scientific report, the "X and Y position indicator"). This is a genius device, without which any workflow on the computer is slowed down now, developed by chance. Simply the existing manipulators (joysticks, light pens, and keyboard) slowed down the window environment,...