Events of Science and Today's Life

  • Turning Fork

    Englishmen, John Shore invented the tuning fork.
  • Torbern Bergman invented carbonated water

    People have been drinking naturally-carbonated water (water with carbon dioxide bubbles) since pre-historic times. The English chemist Joseph Priestley experimented with putting gases in liquids in 1767, producing the first artificially-produced carbonated water.
  • Hot Air Ballon was invented

    Joseph and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier were two French bothers from Vidalon-les-Annonay, near Lyons, who made the first successful hot-air balloon.
  • Albert Einstein created made the refrigerator

    Einstein and help from Leo Szilárd collaborated on ways to improve home refrigeration technology.
  • Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta invented the battery

    This invention provided the first generator of continuous electrical current. Volta also discovered methane gas, CH4 (in 1778). He had earlier invented the electrophorus, a device that generated static electricity charges (in 1775). The volt, the unit of electrical potential, was named for Volta in 1881.
  • Prince William and Kate Middleton get married

    The couple exchanged vows at Westminster Abbey.
  • Leah Messer and Cory Simms divorce

    Leah cheated on Cory and then got divorced.
  • Russell Armstrong commits suicide

    He was found hanging in his bedroom on Mulholland Drive.
  • Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries got divorced

    Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries got divorced. Kris t wanted to stay in Minnesota with Kim, while Kim wanted to stay in L.A.
  • Katy Perry and Russell Brand got divorced

    It has also been said that Brand didn't approve of her partying lifestyle and new claims suggest that he told her to 'tone it down'.