April 21st is World Creativity and Innovation Day! Find some jokes about it!
Why did the scientist install a knocker on his laboratory door?
Because he wanted to win the "No-bell" prize!
What do you call an innovation in scissors?
Cutting-edge technology
When the first jackhammer was invented... ...it was a groundbreaking innovation!
George FownesDied 31 Jan 1849 at age 33 (born 14 May 1815). English chemist who prepared furfurine and benzoline (1845), the first examples of vegeto-alkali or organic salt-bases, as they were known then. He coined their names. Fownes was the first winner of the one hundred guineas (£105) Actonian Prize from the Royal Institution for his essay, Chemistry as Exemplifies the Wisdom and Beneficence of God. He published this essay, which dealt with animal and plant chemistry, in 1844. In the same year he also published a successful general text-book of chemistry, A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical, which survived decades after him through twelve editions, the last in 1872. He died at the young age of 34.« |
