Stephen Hector Taylor-Smith, who
passed away on 15 February 1951, was a pioneering Indian aerospace engineer who
developed techniques in delivering mail by rocket.
Unlike Friedrich
Schmiedl, whom the Austrian Authorities banned from further experimenting,
Smith was encouraged in his experiments by Indian Officials. In the ten-year
span of his experiments (1934–1944), Smith made some 270 launches, including at
least 80 rocket mail flights.
The teddy bear was inspired by a cartoon by Pulitzer
Prize-winning cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman depicting American president Theodore
Roosevelt—commonly called "Teddy"—having compassion for a bear at
the end of an unsuccessful hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902. Morris
Michtom saw the drawing and created a tiny plush bear cub which he sent to
Roosevelt. After receiving permission to use Roosevelt's name, Michtom put a
plush bear in the shop window on 15 February 1903 with a sign
"Teddy's bear." After the creation of the bear the sale of the bears
was so brisk that in 1907 Michtom created the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who passed
away on 15 February 1948, was an Indian poet. Chauhan authored a number of popular works in Hindi poetry. Her most famous
composition is Jhansi Ki Rani, an emotionally charged poem describing the life
of Rani Lakshi Bai. The poem is one of the most recited and sung
poems in Hindi literature. An emotionally charged description of the life of
the queen of Jhansi (British India) and her participation in the 1857
revolution, it is often taught in schools in India.
This
and her other poems, Jallianwala Bagh mein Vasant, Veeron Ka Kaisa Ho Basant, Rakhi Ki Chunauti, and Vida, openly talk about the freedom
movement. They are said to have inspired great numbers of Indian youth to
participate in the Indian Freedom Movement.
Subhadra
Kumari Chauhan wrote in the Khariboli dialect of Hindi, in a simple, clear
style. Apart from heroic poems, she also wrote poems for children. She wrote
some short stories based on the life of the middle class.
If we talk about his discoveries, Galileo was the first person to report telescopic observations of the mountains on the moon, the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus. He calculated the law of free fall, conceived by the principle of inertia; he also determined the parabolic trajectory of projectiles and promoted the relativity of motion.
Galileo’s significant contributions were observational data, which he obtained with a telescope he made himself. He was the first astrophysicist to scan the spaces with a light-magnifying instrument; he is also referred to as the father of observational astronomy.
Telescopic Discoveries of Galileo
Galileo was not only the first inventor of the reflecting telescope, but he also significantly enhanced its power. What set Galileo apart was that he quickly figured out how to improve the instrument.
Galileo was the first to observe the rough, cratered surface of the moon; Jupiter’s four largest satellites named the Galilean moons; dark spots on the sun’s surface, known as sunspots; and the phases of the phases of Venus with his unprecedentedly powerful telescopes.
Earth’s Orbit
Soon after the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands, Galileo created his own from improvised spectacle lenses. He learned how to make unprecedentedly powerful telescopes, which he used to study the solar phases of the planet Venus. He also concluded that the sun is the central point of the solar system, not the Earth, as was formerly assumed, after noticing and studying the similar phases of Venus and the moon. Such discoveries of Galileo took the world of inventions to another level.
The Law of Falling Bodies
The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle taught that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but Galileo wasn’t convinced. By climbing to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Galileo demonstrated this theory by dropping items of various weights off the side, which states that every object will fall at an equal rate. All items hit the ground simultaneously. This law of falling bodies was his crucial contribution in the field of motion.
The Principle of Pendulum
The law of the pendulum was discovered by Galileo Galilei, which made the young scientist famous. Galileo observed that no matter how big the swings are, the time it will take for each swing to complete will be the same because the kinetic energy left in the pendulum will always be the same; it is just shifted from one direction to the other. This law is eventually used to regulate clocks.
Mīrzā Asadullāh Khān Ghālib, who passed away on 15 February 1869, was
a preeminent Indian poet of his time writing in Persian, equally
renowned for poems, letters, and prose pieces in Urdu.
Born into an aristocratic family, Ghālib passed his
youth in luxury. Subsequently, he was granted a small pension by the British
government but had to struggle against penury and hardships. Recognition
finally came in 1850, when he was appointed poet laureate to the last
Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II.
Ghālib’s
best poems were written in three forms: ghazal (lyric), mas̄navī (moralistic
or mystical parable), and qaṣīdah (panegyric). His critics accused him of
writing in an obscure and ornamental style of Persian incomprehensible to the
masses. His verses affirm God’s omnipotence while questioning the misery of the
phenomenal world.
