World Famous Unsolved Mysteries (eBook)

Unusual Facts of Science That Will Surprise Youscience Funnies

V& S Publishers Editorial board (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2005 | 1. Auflage
136 Seiten
V&S Publishers (Verlag)
978-93-81384-85-5 (ISBN)

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Spice in Science is an unusual book replete with interesting incidents, funny situations, memorable events and little known facts from the lives of scientists, researchers, inventors and mathematicians. Herein you will find no pungent formulae or esoteric ideas, simply a colourful embroidery of humorous stories and amusing anecdotes laced with unforgettable incidents from the fascinating lives of these great geniuses.

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The book highlights some of the astonishing features of numbers, such as how to make a magic box, guessing the number in a friend''s mind, telling the year printed on a coin etc. The book is not only fun and informative, but also aweinspiring. It is a priceless treasure of your knowledge and entertainment. #v&spublishers

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Home Alone One day at the Princeton University, a phone call was received enquiring about the address of Dr Einstein. Since the University authorities felt that the professor should be shielded from curious callers, the request was politely rejected. The caller made repeated calls and finally refused to keep the phone down and spoke in an urgent whisper: 'Please do not tell anybody. I am on my way home and have forgotten my way. I am Dr Einstein!' Morse Code and Marriage Miss Mary Stilwell joined Edison Labs. Soon she proved a capable and invaluable asset to the Labs. Once in the middle of a serious experiment, Edison said softly, 'Mary!' Miss Mary said, 'Well, what is it Alva?' Edison took a coin from his coat pocket and tapped a message in Morse code, 'HAVE BEEN THINKING MUCH ABOUT LATELY STOP WILL YOU MARRY ME QUERY.' Mary blushed and smiled. She replied, tapping, 'THAT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY STOP.' And it did. He married her. Albert Einstein once said, 'Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.' Should we say that also for the Morse code? Crystals and Cash Nobel Prize winner Dr C.V. Raman was fond of crystals. He had a rare collection of crystals and regularly added to them whenever he went abroad. From one of his trips abroad, he bought a huge collection of these rare crystals. Facing a problem of excess baggage at the airport, he had to pay rather heavily for the surcharge. As he did not have enough money on him to pay this, he surrendered his entire baggage so that he could take the crystals back home. His invaluable collection included hundreds of rare specimens, such as sand that melted due to lightning, a rock indicating the lava flow from a volcano, and rubies, sapphires and diamonds. He would create a small twinkling world for guests by switching on the ultra-violet light on fluorescent minerals in a dark room. Once in Paris while shopping around, he spied two beautiful butterflies with blue wings in a shop window. He bought them and later collected thousands of such specimens. Too Young for His Own Lecture Max Planck was made a full professor at the University of Berlin at an unusually early age. One day, having forgotten which room he had been assigned for a lecture, he stopped at the nearest university office to find out. 'Please tell me,' he asked the elderly man in charge, 'in which room does Professor Planck lecture today?' The old man patted him on the shoulder. 'Don't go there, young fellow,' he advised. 'You are much too young to understand the lectures of our learned Professor Planck!' Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his Quantum Theory. He once said, 'Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature because in the last analysis we are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.'

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 93-81384-85-1 / 9381384851
• ISBN-13: 978-93-81384-85-5 / 9789381384855