Alfred Nobel

(October 21, 1833 - )

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Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques for blasting rocks.

Alfred's mother, born Andriette Ahlsell, came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes in his construction work caused by the loss of some barges of building material, Immanuel Nobel was forced into bankruptcy the same year Alfred Nobel was born. In 1837 Immanuel Nobel left Stockholm and his family to start a new career in Finland and in Russia. To support the family, Andriette Nobel started a grocery store which provided a modest income. Meanwhile Immanuel Nobel was successful in his new enterprise in St. Petersburg, Russia. He started a mechanical workshop which provided equipment for the Russian army and he also convinced the Tsar and his generals that naval mines could be used to block enemy naval ships from threatening the city.

Guglielmo

(April 25, 1874 - July 20, 1937)
(The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909)

 

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Guglielmo Marconi was born at Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874, the second son of Giuseppe Marconi, an Italian country gentleman, and Annie Jameson, daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in the County Wexford, Ireland. He was educated privately at Bologna, Florence and Leghorn. Even as a boy he took a keen interest in physical and electrical science and studied the works of Maxwell, Hertz, Righi, Lodge and others. In 1895 he began laboratory experiments at his father's country estate at Pontecchio where he succeeded in sending wireless signals over a distance of one and a half miles.

In 1896 Marconi took his apparatus to England where he was introduced to Mr. (later Sir) William Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the Post Office, and later that year was granted the world's first patent for a system of wireless telegraphy. He demonstrated his system successfully in London, on Salisbury Plain and across the Bristol Channel, and in July 1897 formed The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company Limited (in 1900 re-named Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited). In the same year he gave a demonstration to the Italian Government at Spezia where wireless signals were sent over a distance of twelve miles. In 1899 he established wireless communication between France and England across the English Channel. He erected permanent wireless stations at The Needles, Isle of Wight, at Bournemouth and later at the Haven Hotel, Poole, Dorset.

Two People and A Bear Traveler

Two people walking together wandering through a dense forest. It was suddenly a huge bear came out of the bushes near them.

One of the nomad, just think about his safety and did not bother her, climbing into a tree that was close to him.

Traveler others, felt unable to resist a very large bear it alone, threw himself into the ground and lay still, as if he had died. She often hears that the bear will not touch the animal or person who has died.

Two Goats

Two of the goats run with gagahnya from the opposite direction on a steep mountain, then by chance they simultaneously arrive at each edge of the cliff that the water flowing beneath the river is very swift. A tree that falls, has been used as a bridge to cross the gap. Trees are used as the bridge is very small so it can not be passed simultaneously by two-tailed squirrel safely, let alone by two goats. The bridge is very small it will make even the most courageous people will be frightened. But the goat did not feel frightened. A sense of pride and dignity they do not allow them to give in and give way first to the other goats.

Mountain Stories

A boy and his father were walking on the mountain. Suddenly, his son fell, he was wounded and shouted: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!." But he was shocked to hear no sound reflections from the mountain side. "AAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!."

With great curiosity, he too shouted back: "Who are you?" He too received back the same answer: Who are you? "And then she shouted into the mountain:" I adore you! "And the voice rose again:" I adore you!. "

Bird Crow and A Pitcher

On a very dry season, where his bird very difficult to get a little water to drink, a crow finds a pitcher containing a little water. But the pitcher is a pitcher that high with a narrow neck jars. After all crows are trying to trying to drink water that is in the jug, he still can not reach it. The crow was almost feeling desperate and feel will die of thirst.

Chicken and Eagle Fight

In an agricultural area, there lived two roosters are mutually hostile and fights between the two. On one day, they started fighting and return to fight, peck and scratch each other. They fight continued until one of them in defeat and ran away into a corner to hide.

Dog and shadow

A dog gets a bone of a person, ran back to his house as quickly as possible with pleasure. When he passed a very small bridge, she looked down and saw his shadow reflected from the water under the bridge. This greedy dog that thinks he's seen another dog carrying a bone that is bigger than hers.

The Shepherd Boy and Wolf

A shepherd always his master's sheep graze near a dark forest and not far from his village. Since starting to feel bored living in farm areas, he always comforted himself by playing with his dog and playing flute.

One day when he was herding his sheep near the forest, he began to think what to do when he saw the wolf, she felt comforted by the thought of various plans.

Boys and a Jar of Peanuts

A boy is allowed by his mother to put his hand into a jar and take nut in it. And the boy had put his hand into the jar to take a pea, but because the boy took the beans with a huge grip, he could not pull her hand out, and there he stood on, not willing to release the grain peanuts from his grasp because he wanted to take it all at once. Because of curiosity and disappointment she began to cry.