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Balloon, 1783. Inventor : Jacques Montgolfier (1755-99) and Joseph Montgolfier (France) (1740-1810). Tethered flight, Paris (October 15); manned free flight, Paris. Ballpoint Pen, 1888. Inventor : John J. Loud (U.S.). First practical models by Ladisloa and George Biro (Hungary) in 1938. Bullet, 1849. Inventor : Claude Minie (France). Car Radio, 1929. Inventors : William Lear and Elmer Wavering (USA). Cement, 1824. Inventor : Joseph Aspdin (England). Cinema, 1895. Inventors: Auguste Marie Louis Nocolas Lumicre (1862-1954) and Louis Jean Lumiere (France) (1864-1948). Development pioneers were Etienne Jules Marcy (France) (1830-1903) and Thomas A. Edison (U.S.) (1847-1931). First public showing, Paris (December 28, 1895) Clock (mechanical), 725. Inventors: I-Hsing and Liang Ling-Tsan (China). Earliest escapement 600 years before Europe. Clock (pendulum), 1657. Inventor : Christian Huygens (Netherlands) (1629-92). Diesel Engine, 1895. Inventor : Rudolf Diesel (Germany) (1858-1913). Lower pressure oil engine patent by Stuart Akroyd, 1890. Diesel's first commercial success, Augsberg, 1897. Electric Battery, 1800. Inventor : Volta (Italian) Electric Fan, 1882. Inventor : Wheeler (USA). Electric Flat Iron, 1882. Inventor : H.W. Seeley (U.S.), New York City. Electric Generation (Static), 1660. Inventor : Otto von Gueriche (Germany). Electric Lamp, 1879. Inventor : Thomas Alva Edison (U.S.) (1847-1931). First practical demonstration at Menlo Park, New Jersey. Electric Motor (DC), 1873. Inventor : Zenobe Gramme (Belgium) (1826-1901). Exhibited in Vienna. Electric Motor (AC), 1888. Inventor : Nikola Tesla (U.S.) (1856-1943). Electromagnet, 1824. Inventor : William Sturgeon (England) (b. 1783); improved by Joseph Henry (U.S.) 1831. Elevator, 1852. Inventor : Elisha G. Otis (U.S.) (1811-61). Earliest elevator at Yonkers, N.Y. Film (musical), 1923. Inventor : Dr. Lee de Forest (U.S.) New York demonstration (March 13). Film (talking), 1926. Inventor : Warner Bros. (U.S.). First release Don Juan, Warner Theatre, New York (August 5). Fountain Pen, 1884. Inventor : Lewis E. Waterman (U.S.) (1837-1901). Patented by D. Hyde (U.S.), 1830, undeveloped. Glass (stained), c. 1080. Inventor : Augsberg (Germany). Earliest English, c. 1170, York Minister. Glider, 1853. Inventor : Sir George Cayley (England) (1773-1857). Near Brompton Hall, Yorkshire, England. Passenger possibly John Appleby. Gramophone, 1878. Inventor : Thomas Edison (USA). Helicopter, 1930. Inventor : d' Ascanio (Italy). Co-axial machine. Earliest drawing of principle, Le Mans Museum, France, c. 1460. First serviceable machine by Igor Sikorsky (U.S.). 1939. Jet Engine, 1937. Inventor : Sir Frank Whittle (England) (b. 1906). First tested run in 1937. Principles announced by Merconnet (France) 1909 and Maxime Guillaume (France) 1921. First flight August 27, 1939 by Heinkel He. Laws of Gravitation and Motion, 1687. Discovered : Isaac Newton (England). Loudspeaker, 1924. Inventor : Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg (U.S.). Machine Gun, 1861. Inventor : Richard Gaffing (U.S.) (1818-1903). Maps, c. 2500 BC. Inventor : Sumerians (clay tablets). Earliest world map by Eratosthenes c. 220 BC. Microphone, 1876. Inventor : Alexander Graham Bell (U.S.) (1847-1922). Name coined 1878 by David Hughes. Microscope, 1590. Inventor : Zacharis Janssen (Netherlands). Compound convex-concave lens. Motorcycle, 1848. Inventor : Edward Butler (England). First exhibited 1885 by Daimler, earliest factory in Munich 1893. Motor Scooter, 1919. Inventor : Greville Bradshaw (England) Paper, c. 150. Invented in China. Introduced to West via Yarkand, c. 750. Parachute, 1797. Inventor : Andre Jacques Garnerin (France) (1769-1823). First descent from 2,230 ft over Paris. Earliest jump from aircraft March 1, 1912 by Capt A. Berry (U.S.) over St. Louis, Missouri. Photography (on metal), 1826. Inventor : Joseph Nicéphore Niepce (France) (1765-1833). Sensitised pewter plate, 8 hrs exposure at Chalon-sur-Saone, France. Photography (on paper), 1835. Inventor : W. H. Fox Talbot (England) (1807-77). Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England. Photography (on film), 1888. Inventor : John Carbutt (U.S.). Kodak by George Eastman (U.S.) (1854-1932), August 1888. Piano, 1709. Inventor : Cristofori (Italy). Printing Press, c. 1455. Inventor : Johannes Gutenberg (Germany) (c. 1400-68). Hand printing known in India in 868. Pyramid, c. 2685 BC. Inventor : Egyptians . Earliest was Zoser step pyramid, Saqqara. Record (long-playing), 1948. Inventor : Dr. Petter Goldmark (U.S.). Developed in the CBS Research Labs. Refrigerator, 1851. Inventor : James Harrison [Australian (1816-1893)j Bendigo. Australia, Brewery. Revolver, 1835. Inventor : Samuel Colt (U.S.) (1814-62) Rocket Engine, 1926. Inventor : Robert H. Goddard (USA), considered as father of modern rocket propulsion. Rubber (vulcanised), 1841. Inventor : Charles Goodyear (U.S.) (1800-60). Rubber (tyres), 1857. Inventor : Thomas Hancock (England) (1786-1865). Introduced solid rubber tyres for vehicles (1847) Ship (sea-going), c. 2500 BC. Inventor : Egyptian ships traversed Eastern Mediterranean sea. Ship (steam), 1775. Inventor : J.C. Perier (France) (1742-1818). First trail on the Seine river, near Paris, France. Ship (turbine), 1894. Inventor : Hon. Sir Charles Parsons (England) (1854-1931). S.S. Turbinia attained 34.5 knots on first trial Spectacles (or eyeglasses), c. 1286. Inventor : Venice, Italy (convex). Concave lens myopia not developed till c. 1450. Stethoscope, Inventor : Dr. William Stokes (England) (1804-78). Streetcar (railed), 1550. Inventor : Rail mining tracks, Lieberthal in Alsace region of France. Streetcar (electric), 1879. Inventor : Ernst Werner von Siemens (Germany) (1813-92). Earliest permanent self-propelled public streetcar at Lichterfelde in Berlin, Germany, 1881. Demonstration at Berlin trade exhibition over 300 yards, May 31,1879. Submarine, 1776. Inventor : David Bushnell of Saybrook, Connecticut (U.S.). Synthesizer, 1964. Inventor : Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (USA). Tank (military), 1914. Inventor : Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton (England) (1868-1951). Built at Leicester, England. Tested in September 1915. Telegraph, 1837. Inventors : Sir William Cook (1806-79), Sir Charles Wheatstone (England) (1802-75). Demonstrated on 25th July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. Telegraph Code, 1837. Inventor: Samuel F.B. Morse (U.S.) (1791-1872). The real credit belonged largely to his assistant, Alfred Vail (U.S.). Telephone, 1876. Inventor : Alexander Graham Bell (U.S.) (1847-1922). First exchange at Boston, Massachusetts, 1878. Telescope (1st refracting), 1608. Inventor : Hans Lippershey (German-Dutch lensmaker). Demonstrated his invention called 'kijker' (meaning 'looker' in Dutch) before Dutch parliament on 2nd October 1608. Transformer (induction coil), 1842. Inventor : William Stanley, Jr. (U.S.). Transistor, 1948. Inventors : John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain (U.S). Researched at Bell Telephone Laboratories. First application for a patent was by Dr Julius Edgar Lilienfeld in Canada in October 1925. Typewriter, 1864. Inventor : Peter Mitterhofer (1822-1893) (Austria). First practical patent by Christopher Soles (U.S.) (1868). Vaccination, 1796. Inventor : Dr. Edward Jenner (England). Vitamin A, 1913. Discoverers : Elmer V. McCollum and M. Davis (USA). Vitamin B, 1916. Discoverer : Elmer V. McCollum (USA). Vitamin C, 1920. Discoverers : Albert Szent-Györgyi and Charles Glen King (USA). Vitamin D, 1920. Discoverer : Sir Edward Mellanby (USA). He also studied role of Vitamin D in preventing Rickets in 1919. Vitamin E, 1922. Discoverer : Sir Herbert McLean Evans (USA). Vitamin K, 1929. Discoverers : Henrik Dam (Denmark) and Edward Adelbert Doisy (USA). Washing Machine (electric), 1907 (date not exact, estimated). Inventor : Controversial and exact inventor is unknown. However, Hurley Machine Company of Chicago (U.S) produced first model of electric washer called "Thor" based on design by Alva J. Fisher, (1910). Wheel, c. 3800-3600 BC. Inventor : Sumerian civilisation. Spokes as opposed to solid wheels introduced c. 1900 BC. Windmill, c. 600 AD. Inventor : Persian corn grinding, oldest known port mill, 1191, Bury St. Edmunds, England. Writing, c. 3400 BC. Inventor : Sumerian civilisation. Earliest evidence found at Warka in Iraq. Xerography, 1938. Inventor : Chester Floyd Carlson (U.S). First photocopier machine marketed in U.S. in 1950. X-ray, 1895. Inventor : Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (Germany). University of Wurzburg (November 8). Zeppelin, (Rigid Airship) 1899. Inventor : Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Germany). Zero (in number system), c. 600. Inventor : Anonymous (India). (Absolute zero temperature; cessation of all molecular energy, 1848, William Thompson and Lord Kelvin, England). NameNotes Aaj Tak owned by TV Today Network. Free to air channel TV24 owned by A-One NewsTime Broadcasting P Ltd, Chairman Labh Singh Ahluwalia. Free to air channel NDTV India owned by New Delhi Television Ltd. Pay Channel ABP News owned by ABP Group, Formerly STAR News. Free to air channel Zee News owned by Zee Network. Pay Channel DD News owned by Doordarshan. Free to air channel IBN-7 owned by TV18. Pay Channel India TV owned by Rajat Sharma. Free to air channel Live India owned by Broadcast Initiatives Ltd. Free to air channel Sahara Samay owned by Sahara Group India News News 24 owned by B.A.G. Films and Media Limited. Free to air channel News Express HD P7 News owned by Pearls Media. S1 CHANNEL One News Tez part of TV Today Network, sister channel of Aaj Tak Voice Of India owned by Triveni Media Limited, also known as Voice of India S7 News owned by S7 Group of Broadcasting. Jan TV owned by CSL Infomedia Pvt. Ltd. september m and a activity: 1. Tech Mahindra acquires Hutchison Global Services- 100% for $ 87 mn . Hutchison Global Services (HGS) provides customer lifecycle operations to clients in UK, Ireland and Australia 2. Mitsui and Sanyo Special Steel has acquired 49% in Mahindra Ugine Steel Company's (MUSCO) wholly-owned steel business for Rs 2.18bn 3. Jindal BVI Limited (JBVI), a subsidiary of steel major Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has acquired Canadian listed coal Company CIC Energy Corp. (CIC) for about US$115 million 4. Etihad Airways increases stake in Virgin Australia 5. Red Hat acquires BPM Technology from Polymita 6. Godrej Industries Ltd. has entered into a share purchase agreement to divest its 43% stake in Godrej Hershey Limited to the Hershey Company for an undisclosed consideration. 7. PE deals: Bain Capital acquiring 30% equity stake in Genpact deal for US$ 1 Billion. This deal enabled part exit of the existing PE investors, General Atlantic Partners and Oak Hill Partners. There were 2 other large PE deals. SBI Macquire Private Equity’s US$ 150 million investment in Ashok Concessions and Nasper and Tiger Global’s US$ 150 million investment in Flipkart. 8. Max India Ltd has sold its unit that makes polypropylene film to Germany's Treofan for Rs5.4 bn, according to reports. 9. Citrix announced that it has completed its acquisition of Beetil, a privately-held cloud-based service desk technology provider. 10. Tech Mahindra Ltd., India’s sixth largest software exporter announced the acquisition of 51% stake on a fully diluted basis in Comviva Technologies Ltd., a Bharti Group Company for $1.35 bn 11. Financial Technologies India Ltd has reported that private equity firm Blackstone GPV Capital Partners, Mauritius, has increased its stake in the company to over 6% through open market transactions. 12. Japan's diversified trading company Mitsui & Co is acquiring 25% stake in active pharmaceutical ingredient maker Arch Pharmalabs for Rs. 3.72bn 13. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China's largest e-commerce company, announced it has completed the initial repurchase of shares from Yahoo! and restructured its relationship with the Silicon Valley company in transactions valued at ~US$7.6 billion. 14. Arvind Lifestyle Brands, subsidiary of Arvind Ltd, one of the largest players in the apparel brands and retail space, announced the acquisition of the business operations of British fashion retailers Debenhams and Next and American Lifestyle Brand Nautica in India from Plant Retail. 15. Tata Sons has reportedly increased stake in Indian Hotels Company by acquiring 46.30 lakh shares of the company for about Rs. 290mn 16. more news: Dalmia Cement acquires Adhunik Cement for Rs5.60bn Infiniti Retail acquires Woolworths Wholesale (India) Gravita India sells 33% stake in Gravita Honduras Godrej Consumer partners with Darling Group 17. IBM has acquired UK-based storage migration firm Butterfly Software. 18. Temasek Holdings has sold 2.5% stake in Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. for S$1.28 bn Singapore dollars (US$1.04 bn), according to reports. august m and a part 1: 1. Reliance Capital Asset Management (RCAML) to sell 26% stake to Japanese insurer Nippon Life. The deal is worth around Rs. 14.5 billion. 2. Nestle SA's has done $11.9 billion purchase of Pfizer Inc's baby food business 3. LKP Merchant Financing has sold another 53.41 lakh shares of Kingfisher Airlines for nearly Rs. 50mn 4. HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s premier hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration and Distribution Company announced the buyout of the remaining 40% stake held by the NTS Group in HCL Infosystems MEA 5. Aegis Media acquires Communicate 2 6. The Home Depot and U.S. Home Systems, Inc. announced a definitive merger agreement for The Home Depot to acquire USHS 7. The owner of British Airways and Spanish airline Iberia (IAG) took a stake in American Airlines 8. The Carlyle Group bought asset manager TCW Group, Reports stated that TCW is majority-owned by France's Société Générale and has about $127 billion in assets under management. 9. Bain Capital buys stake in Genpact for $1bn 10. Sahara Group acquires New York's Plaza Hotel for $570mn 11. ITC hikes stake in Hotel Leelaventure 12. Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd has acquired two tea estates in the Republic of Malawi in southeast Africa, at a consideration of Rs. 1.22bn. 13. Birla Shloka Edutech acquires 51.1% stake in Ojus Healthcare 14. Google Inc has acquired marketing start-up Wildfire to help the world's largest Internet search company expand further into social media 15. Sterling Bancorp has announced that its wholly-owned, New York City-based subsidiary, Sterling National Bank, has acquired the business of Universal Mortgage, Inc., a leading residential mortgage broker in Brooklyn 16. Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) has invested Rs. 2500mn (US$ 45mn) for a minority stake in Inox India Limited (INOXCVA), a leading global manufacturer of cryogenic storage and transportation equipment. 17. GAIL India Ltd has reduced its equity stake in ONGC's Dahej mega petrochemical project to 15.5%, according to reports. Something about Eurozone Crisis - (Pardon spelling mistakes if any) It all started with Maastricht treaty of 1992, which envisaged to create a single currency i.e., euro for the EU. The countries like Greece, Portugal were not as financially sound as Germany and France, but the single currency came with voluminous benefits, like more market for goods, more capacity to borrow funds, and some others which were were hard to resist. Some vital conditions which the said treaty proposed were - inflation to be less than 5%, deficit to be less than or equal to 3%, and debt to GDP ratio to be not more than 60%. But as on January 1999, with the creation of Euro, countries like Greece saw their exports rising and the borrowing cost came down. So the countries like Greece started borrowing more money, the interest rates of banks became almost zero, more liquidity in the market, more demand and hence the growth was good which was basically a demand driven economy. Although all these profligate activities lead to increase of fiscal deficit to over 3%, which was manipulated by Greece to show that it is under 3%. The problem came to the picture when in 2009, the Greece govt told that it would not be able to pay its bond obligations as the housing bubble has bursted and its banks were saddled with NPAs and Credit default swaps have also failed, the debt to GDP ratio is well over 60%, the fiscal deficit is almost in double digits and it is on the Verge of a default. This lead to a series of meeting among the still-not-so-affected countries like France and Germany to chalk out a plan as they knew that more than Greece needs euro, it is now Euro that needs Greece more than before. So the EFSF was created to help Greece with funds and came to impose strict fiscal conditions. Soon Spain also asked for help and the acronym PIGS became popular Even recently Cyprus has asked for help. It seems that contain-the-contagion strategy doesn't seem to work. The biggest problem is that even if Greece wants to devalue its currency to solve the BoP problem, it can't devalue as Maastricht treaty will not allow. So this is Euro debt crises which has caused ripples in the world economy and many gone and coming and gone elections were won on this premises. Where is Central salt and Marine research institute ? Ans: Bhavnagar , Gujarath Where is Indian Institute of Soil Science (IISS) ? Ans:Bhopal Where is Central Food Technological Research Institute ? Ans:Mysore National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis(NIRT) is located at ? Ans: Chennai National Physical laboratory is located at ? Ans: New Delhi National Chemical laboratory is located at ? Ans: Pune Where is National Institute of Rural Development ? Ans: Rajendranagar, Hyderabad Where is National Institute of Nutrition ? Ans: Hyderabad Where is Central Rice Research Institute ? Ans: Cuttack Where is Central Building Research Institute Ans: Roorkee Where is National Dairy Research Institute?
Where is Indian Instituteof Petroleum ? Ans: Dehradun, Uttarakhand where is Forest Research Institute ? Ans: Dehradun Where is Indian Institute of Spices Research ? Ans: calicut, Kerala Where is Indian Institute of Science ? Ans: Bangalore
men's title winner ? Ans: Roger Federer
Ans: serena williams Name the court where Wimbledon matches are held? Answer: Center court (London) Name the court where French open matches take place ? Answer: Roland garros Name the court where US Open matches are held? Answer: Flushing meadows World chess Champion 2012 ? Ans: viswanathan anand 2012 IPL Winners ? Kolkata Knight riders [Runner up - Chennai Super kings ] 2012 world snooker championship winner ? Ans: Ronnie O'sullivan US National Humanities Medal 2012 ? Ans: Amartya Sen 2012 Golden Bear award winning Documentary in Berlin film Festival ? Ans: Ceasar Must Die 2012 European tour title winner- ? Ans:Jbe Kruger (South Africa) European tour title is related to which sports item? Ans: sports 2012 Jindal Prize Winner ? Ans: A P J Abdul Kalam and Santhosh Hegde 2012 Africa Cup of nations winner ? Ans: Zambia 2012 current affairs Questions related to Olympics : London Olympics 1) First olympic games was on ? Ans: BC 776 (Greece) 2) First modern olympic games was held on ? Ans: 1896 (Athens ) 3)
Ans  rof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, ActingPresident
4) Where is the Head Querters of International Olympic Committee(IOC) ? Ans: Lausanne, Switzerland 5)
Ans:Jacques Rogge 6) What is the motto for Olympics ? Ans:Citius, Altius, Fortius (meansFaster, Higher, Stronger ) 7)2012 London Olympics watchdog commissioner who was resigned in protest at Dow Chemical's sponsorship? Ans: Meredith Alexander Q)Name london olympics 2012 mascot ? Ans:Wenlock and Mandeville 2010 youth Olympics mascot - Lyo and Merly Gk Questions & currentaffairs related to technology - Mars Missions
NASA's Mars mission - curiosity was landed on? Answer: Gale crater List of Mars Missions by United states Answer: viking, phobos ,pathfinder, deep space ,spirit , opportunity ,curiosity Mars Missions by Russia Answer : phoenix Mars Missions by European space Agency Answer : beagle General knowledge Questions and answers 2012 exams: Indian cities - updated Which city is known as diamond city? answer: Surat
answer: amritsar City of Joy ? answer: Kolkata Which city is called Manchester of India ? answer: Ahmedabad Which city is called Orange city of india ? answer: Nagpoor Which city is called Silicon Valley of India ? Ans: Banglore Which indian city is called garden city of India ? answer: Banglore Which indian city is called Temple city of India ? answer:Bhubaneshwar
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