Tag: fire
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Peculiar Patents – Neck Parachute

In what may be perhaps the funniest patent I have come across, a man named Benjamin Oppenheimer filed on the 26th Of March 1879 a device which if you happened to be in a burning building, would help you escape by, get this…. A person may safely jump out of the window of a burning…
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A Brief History Of Chemistry

If we are speaking broadly and technically chemistry is the study of the elements and compounds they form but if we have to speak on anything, in it’s much broader sense as stated, it is so much more. In a sense it is the science of everyday life, of the matter that makes up the…
