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Alexander Graham Bell recievs a patent for the telephone in the US
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 to August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist and inventor best known for inventing the first working telephone in 1876 and founding the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. Bell’s education was largely received through numerous experiments in sound and the furthering of his father’s work on Visible Speech for the deaf. Bell worked with Thomas Watson on the design and patent of the first practical telephone. In all, Bell held 18 patents in his name alone and 12 that he shared with collaborators.
Earth’s rotation is changing speed. This means that, on average, the length of a day increases by around 1.8 seconds per century. 600 million years ago a day lasted just 21 hours.




You have to DREAM before your dreams can come true

- Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Lucid
Adj.  Easily understood
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Shantanoo Harmalkar : They had a clear and lucid account of their plans for future.
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Priya Gongal : It was a lucid dream; half awake, half asleep

S Somnath

Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer who is the chairman of the "Indian Space Research Organisation" (ISRO). Under his chairmanship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named "Chandrayaan-3". The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyaan landed near the lunar south pole region on the 23rd of August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate a soft landing on the Moon's surface. S. Somanath has served as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and director of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. He is known for his contributions to launch vehicle design, particularly in launch vehicle systems engineering, structural design, structural dynamics, and pyrotechnics.

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