The history of shampoo can be traced back to the ancient tribes of India. The specific date when shampoo was invented and the original inventor is not clearly known. However, the word shampoo has been used since the year 1762 and means ‘to massage’. The word is borrowed from the Anglo-Indian shampoo which in turn…
Shoes are foot coverings that are mostly made of leather and consist of an upper; the portion found above the sole and a sole. The invention of shoes dates back to the prehistoric times when man found walking on rocks to be quite a hard task and decided to find some covering that would protect…
Pneumonia is a kind of infection that affects the lungs. The agents that cause pneumonia are many, ranging from parasites, bacteria, fungi to viruses. Hippocrates termed pneumonia s the disease that was named by the ancients. He additionally reported the outcome of the empyemas’ surgical drainage. Between 1138 and 1204 A.D, Maimonides was the person…
The initial inhabitants of India included the Dravidians, Tamils as well as the Malayalam peoples. As early as 2700 B.C Sumerians from the land of Mesopotamia had began to trade with the inhabitants of India. Later on, other people like Babylonians, Elamites and Assyrians followed suit. Around 2000 B.C, a group of Aryans invaded India…
Crayons were invented in Europe but the inventor is not well-known. The crayons have been used to draw and write over the years. Crayons are made from a combination of oil and charcoal. The first crayons that were made had no other color apart from black. In the later years, crayons of different pigments were…
The history of swimming can be traced back to prehistoric times. This is through the paintings made on cave walls in the Stone Age about seven thousand years ago. However, the documented evidence was made from 2000 BC with the initial references being recorded as the Iliad, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, the Bible, the Odyssey and some…
The history of schools dates back to ancient Greece where groups of students were brought together in a central learning facility. In ancient Greece, the types of schools present were known as academies. The term academy began to be used at around 385 BC where a Greek scholar known as Plato, formed a philosophy school…
Hemophilia is a type of inherited genetic disorder that damages the ability of the body to manage the clotting of blood that is used in stopping bleeding the moment blood vessels stop functioning. The first ever definition of hemophilia was given by Dr. John Conrad Otto who was a Philadelphian physician. In 1803, he distributed…
Albinism is a genetic illness that occurs when an individual has little or no melanin in their skin, eyes and hair. The first person to scientifically recognize this illness was known as Sir Archibald Garrod. This was done in the year 1908. One of his books known as Inborn Errors of Metabolism was released in…
Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island found in the United States. Originally the island was inhabited by the Arawak Indians who were about sixty thousand in number. At the time the island was known by the locals as Borinquen or Boriken which when translated to English means, the great land of the valiant and noble…