Penicillin discovery by Fabiola

Alexander Fleming has been known for several years as the scientific who discovered penicillin. Every book that has been writen abroad about this topic has his name in it but the real history has emerged to people in year 2000, when a group of scientists that worked in the San Juan de Dios Hospital of Costa Rica published original manuscripts made by Dr. Clodomiro Picado Twight. These showed that he worked with "penicillin sp" fungi to inhibit the development of staphylococci and streptococci bacteria between 1915 and 1927.
Picado reported his discovery to The Paris Science Academy which published a report with the results of the treatments he had performed in 1927, but he didn't patent it despite having made this research years before Fleming, who discovered it in 1928.
Clodomiro Picado was a very important scientist who is known all around the word for being the first man who made research about snake venoms and his main achievement was the development of anti-venom serums.

new words by prisilla

Glancing : move your ayes rapidly

Enrage : make somebody angry



Restrain : to be stopped

A STOLEN INVENTION

by Alvaro Chacón V.


Antonio Meucci was an Italian scientist and inventor. He was born in Florence in 1808.
In the 1850s he started designing telephone gadgets as a result of his investigations. He needed to be in touch with his wife because she was very ill, so he installed his telephone to have contact between the basement, where he had his studio, and the first floor of his house, where his wife stayed on a bed.
Mr. Meucci didn’t have enough money to patent his invention so he presented it to a company but they didn’t show any interest on it; however the papers he presented wasn’t given back to him and later Alejandro Graham Bell got a copy of the invention.
Mr. Bell patented the telephone as his own invention and he has been known as the original inventor.
On the 11th of June 2002, the Unite States Congress according to Resolution #269 recognized Antonio Meucci as the real telephone’s inventor.

SMART TROLLEY by Prisilla and Alvaro

“JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME”

Smart Trolley is a shopping trolley for supermarkets, equipped with a gadget that detects the products and its bar codes when you put them into the car. Once you finish shopping you can pass to a security area where you can pay just sliding your credit card through the gadget. Then you only need to pack the products and go. You won’t queue anymore. It’s easy and fast!

Something to learn... (Prisilla)

Something to learn...

We always have thought that the Telescope inventor was Galileo Galilee , but the True is other.

This invention was stolen.

! Unbelievable !

The real inventor of the telescope is Dutchman Hans Lippershey , who in 1608 he had created the first telescope , with the intention to sell it but nobody paid him for the invention.

Until 1609 Galilee was recognized the Telescope inventor , even though he wasn’t .

Lippershey's telescope (internet re-creation)

New words... at least, for me (Ale)

Cheery (adjective)Gay, sunny, bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile"

cabby (noun)taxidriver, taximan, cabdriver, cabman, cabby, hack driver, hack-driver, livery driver someone who drives a taxi for a living

trolley (noun) streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity; "`tram' and `tramcar' are British terms"

worthless (adjective) worthless lacking in excellence or value; "a worthless idler"

clonk (verb) to make a dull hollow thumping sound or to cause to clonk

BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE

BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE

Alvaro

First of all is important to say that communication is between a transmitter, who needs to send a message and a receiver, who the message is sent to.
It is always important to do a research or to analyze something located into the context to get a more objective approach.
This presentation wasn’t done with the idea of talking about technical and professional definitions of the different ways of communication. It was done thinking about how the ways to communicate has been developed throughout history with the idea of sending a message in a more direct and fast way.
Smoke signals: Made with smoke columns that gave different messages depending on the color, intensity and shape. It was used to sending fast messages across long distance. We still use smoke signals to make public that a new Pope has been chosen.
Sound from drums and horns were used with the same proposal in past times, sending messages about someone was arriving or warning about an event.
Carrier pigeons: were used to send messages to cover long distance. It probably was one of the first moments that human beings tried to use the sky for their necessities.
Drawings: Drawings were used to let messages and to tale stories through generations and time.

Even though the printing had already been invented in China in 1041, it was until 1450 that printing was improved by Gutenberg who was able to create letters with different and specific sizes to print on sheets. This advance allowed replacing handwriting books by printed books.

In 1854 Antonio Meucci invented the telephone such as we know it today, but it was patented by Alejandro Graham Bell.

Between 1850 and 1900; Popov, Tesla and Marconi made improvements contributing to the development of the radio. Probably the highest success of the radio is the possibility to reach a bigger market with fewer budgets.
In 1900 Constantin Perski introduced the first concept of television talking about transmission and reception of images in motion.

In 1936 the first computer was being built, using an area of 167m2 and with a weight of 27 Ton. Usually that computer needed about one week to process some information. With the invention of the computer, there were needed to connect computers to each other with the idea of sharing information and in the 1980s that technology started expanding around the world.
In the 1990s the World Wide Web was introduced and it allowed the access to more information and supporting the fast development of the global economy.

Nowadays there are a lot of great inventions that try to combine the different kind of ways to communicate. Gadgets with tv, radio, internet access, messenger that make easier the communication.

We need to understand those gadgets and inventions as ways to communicate in a world of globalization, of technology, of consumerism. But probably something unimportant for us is the best way of communication for others.

And we need to understand that probably the most important gadget to communicate something would be a gadget that translates what the Earth, the Nature and the Environment need to say to the mankind.

WORD FROM BODY LANGUAGE

Alvaro

Assail: asediar / assailed by: assediado por
A tug: tirón
Earlobe: lóbulo de la oreja
Rotten: podrido
Sponge: esponja
Sponger: Someone who takes too much without doing anything in return
Sneaky: chismoso, soplón
Pansy: mariquita
Hang around:esperar

missladyboys.com by Prisilla

Who is the boy and who is the girl ?

All them are guys ...

Take care when you go to Thailand

!I just can say HOW!

The answer is ALL THEM are men .

Who really invented the internet?

By Alejandra Vargas

Sometime, when we talk about internet creator a big question comes: Who really invented the internet: CERN or the US military? It was maybe someone else?
The answer it easy: it was Tim Berners-Lee.

Twenty years ago, he handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal".
At that moment Sendall said: "Vague, but exciting” and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward.
This scientist wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
The following year, the World Wide Web was born and it changes the world forever and ever.
Tim Berners-Lee is from England and he studied at Oxford University in 1989. Berners-Lee invented an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at the European Particle Physics Laboratory of The European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN.
Now, he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT's CSAIL where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.

See more information: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Web-en.html