First Things In The World

Those are the world's first things.

1. The first Digital Camera

2. The first Motel

3. The First Album Cover

4. The First Novel

5. The First Web Server and Web Site

6. The First Motocycle

7. The First X-Ray

8. First Computer Mouse

10. First Skyscraper

11. First Concept Car

12. First Mp3 Player

13. First Crossword

14. First Microprocessor

15. First Magazine

16. First Photograph

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Arachnids and Their Family Members

Spider is probably the smallest known species, but did you know that scorpions, spiders, the men harvest and also the small species of mites in the family? Spiders have been around for over 500 million years - that's a long time! All spiders have eight legs, or four legs. Their bodies are divided into two parts - the head and abdomen.

Arachnid family members pictures - Science for children All About spider funny random facts
Some members of the spider family.
Spiders live in nearly every corner of the earth. Many of them spin webs. Some make bubbles underwater webs. Spiders lay eggs, but the eggs do not last as insect metamorphosis. Instead, most of the smaller species look like little adults, only smaller.
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Spider eyes Close-up image
All About Spider: Most spiders have eight eyes.
Interesting animal fun facts about spiders for children

Most spiders have eight eyes, but some only have two, four or six.
All spiders have venom, but only a few types of spiders dangerous for people. In the United States, only two venomous spiders can make people sick.
Scorpions have a stinger and a strong hold to deal with their prey.
Most spiders can only eat liquid food. They inject a special liquid into their prey could turn inside of prey to romance. Then they suck mush out - like a milkshake error.
Arachnid Feeding on Prey Photo
Spider injecting a special fluid into their prey could turn inside of prey to romance. Then they suck mush out.

Fantasmagorie - The very first animated movies in history

"Fantasmagorie" is a French animation movie made by Émile Cohl in 1908, which's considered the first animated cartoon ever.

Émil Cohl was a French graphic artist and he's also the first cartoon filmmaker in Europe. In the year of 1908, he joined the Gaumont film company as a writer, then moved to making animated films. He actually made a lot of films (more than 250 products), using drawings, puppets, cut-outs, and more.

Cohl's film of "Fantasmagorie“ (or also known as Phantasmagoria in English) is likely the very first animated film in the history. 

Fantasmagorie defined as "a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imaged“. Émil Cohl worked on this film for around 5 months. He had drawn each frame on paper which he shot onto negative film. For this film, each frame on paper takes him about 80 seconds to complete, and he had to draw totally about 700 pictures which he photographed later. The colors in the negatives weren’t inverted on the film; therefore, it looks like chalk on a blackboard though it was originally drawn with a black pen on white paper.

The film has no real story or structure. You can see different scenes that are morphing into other different images. In the 1st scene, a hand is drawing a little clown which doubles as a chubby guy who falls into a chair in a theater. 

(Source of information: http://www.lomography.com/)

History of pencil

The modern pencil was first invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, who's a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. 

The magic material that was so appropriate for the purpose was the form of pure carbon that we call graphite. It this material was first discovered in Europe, in Bavaria at the start of the 15th century. despite the fact that the Aztecs had used it as a marker several hundred years earlier. It was initially believed to be a form of lead and was called ‘plumbago’ or black lead (so the ‘plumbers’ who mend our lead water-carrying pipes), a misnomer that still echoes in our talk of pencil ‘leads’. 

This stuff was called graphite only in 1789, using the Greek word of ‘graphein’ meaning ‘to write’. Well, the pencil is an older word, derived from the Latin language ‘pencillus’, meaning ‘little tail’, to describe the small ink brushes  that were used for writing in the Middle Ages.

The First Paper Money in the world

Paper bills were first used by Chinese people, who started carrying folding money during the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907) - mostly just in form of privately issued bills of credit or exchange notes - and used it for over 500 years before the practice began to catch on in Europe in the 17th century. While it took about one or even two centuries for paper money to spread out to the rest of the world, China was already going through a kind of fairly advanced financial crisis: the production of paper notes had grown until their value plummeted that prompted inflation to soar. Due to that, China entirely eliminated paper money in 1455 and would not adopt it again for several hundred years after that. 

It's Just For Fun!!!

The world around us is so big. Knowledge is like an endless sea and what we know is really, really tiny!!! With the hope of introducing you some great facts about the world, which are so simple and interesting but we might somehow get remiss. Well, in this blog, I'm going to just focus on the facts like who made the first instant noodle, when the first PC was made, or something like these. But don't take them so seriously, keep in mind that it's just for fun. Haha!!!