1.Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb". 2.Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912. 3.Joseph Niepce developed the world's first photographic image in 1827. Thomas Edison and W K L Dickson introduced the film camera in 1894. But the first projection of an image on a screen was made by a German priest. In 1646, Athanasius Kircher used a candle or oil lamp to project hand-painted images onto a white screen. 4.Interesting Facts is that The Sumerians invented writing. The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC. 5.Karl Benz invented the first gas powered car. The car had only three wheels. The first car with four wheels was made in France in 1901 by Panhard et LeVassor. 6.JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes. 7.Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India. 8.Interesting Facts is that India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. 9.Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laserbprinters,all were invented by women. 10.In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. 11.The first rocket was invented by the Chinese in the 13th century. 12.False eyelashes were invented by the American film director D.W. Griffith while he was making his 1916 epic, "Intolerance". Griffith wanted actress Seena Owen to have lashes that brushed her cheeks, to make her eyes shine larger than life. A wigmaker wove human hair through fine gauze, which was then gummed to Owen's eyelids. "Intolerance" was critically acclaimed but flopped financially, leaving Griffith with huge debts that he might have been able to settle easily - had he only thought to patent the eyelashes. 13.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." 14.The fortune cookie was invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodlemaker. 15.Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts. 16.Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure". 17.Interesting Facts is that The oiuja board was invented by Isaac and William Fuld, and was patented July 1, 1892. 18.The hamburger was invented in 1900 by Louis Lassen. He ground beef, broiled it, and served it between two pieces of toast. 19.In 2003, scientists managed to create a material dense enough to stop light mid-way through it, allowing them to observe static light. 20.The Can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the can. 21.Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite. 22.Diet Coke was only invented in 1982. 23.Dry cereal for breakfast was invented by John Henry Kellogg at the turn of the century Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836. 24.The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.