Benjamin Franklin was one of the cleverest men ever born in America.
He was born in 1705 in Massachusetts. Is parents had come to America from Northampton shire in England.
When Ben just a boy, he invented swimming flippers. He made oval fins of wood, and he wore them on his hands and feet. They did help him to swim faster.
When Ben was twelve he went to work for hi brother who was a printer. A few years later his brother started a newspaper. Ben wrote for it.
In a few years Ben moved to Philadelphia. There he started a printing works of his own and his own paper too, which he called `poor Richard’s Almanac’.
People all over the world read it.
Among other things Ben invented bifocals. These are glass with one lens on the top for seeing things far away and a on the bottom for seeing close up.
In Ben’s time, not much was known about electricity. He wondered if lighting could be electricity. He made a kite and put some metal wire on a string and then flew it in a thunderstorm.
This was a very dangerous thing to do. The metal caught the electricity from the lightning. Ben had solved one of nature’s oldest mysteries. He also found how to protect buildings from electricity and invented the lightning conductor.
Ben spent much of his life serving the country. He was an officer in the post office and brought about many changes to improve its service. Many of his methods are still used in the US post office.
The American colonies began to have trouble with their mother country Britain. Ben went there and tried to keep peace between the two countries. But when war broke out he was wholeheartedly on the American side. Although he was seventy years old he designed weapons and forts and helped George Washington to raise an army. He helped to write America’s Declaration of independence from Britain.
Ben served as the American ambassador in France. Later Ben helped to write US constitution.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak of the world. It stands in the Himalayas and on the border o Nepal and Tibet near India. It is named after Sir George Everest, a British Surveyor, who first discovered its location and height.
Many attempts to climb Everest were made by an umber of mountaineering bodies and their members. The first attempt goes back to 1922 when captains Bruce and Finch reached up to 28,000 feet. Later serious attempts were made in 1924, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938 and 1952, but these were not successful.
Going up the higher reaches of the mountains is a very difficult task. First, it is too cold and one has to wear heavy thick garments to avoid frostbite. Second, it is difficult to breathe because the air is thin, with less oxygen. Third, there is no regular path upwards. The mountaineers have to use strong ropes with hooks and dig holes with axes to climb the heights. Fourth, the surface of the rocks is slippery and very risky. Glaciers of ice very often slide down hundreds of feet taking the mountaineers with them. For these reasons many adventurous persons attempting to go up very high mountains have lost their lives.
In May 1953 John hunted an expedition to the Everest. Two members of this team, Edmund Hillary and tensing Norkay, reached the top. Tensing Norkay reached the top. Tensing and Hillary moved out of their tent after a night’s rest n the lonely snows. They crawled out at 6.30 in the early morning. Everest was jut little above them. They had pitched a camp about 28,000 feet high and hey had to climb the last on thousand feet to reach the top.
With the oxygen kit on their backs, they slowly moved up the snow –clad rocks.
They found the powdery surface of the snow very slippery and dangerous. Luckily the base of the snow was solid and Hillary was able to cut steps with is ice axe.
Tensing was moving ahead. Hillary noticed that Tensing’s speed had reduced considerably. The oxygen tube was blocked with ice. Hillary knew that Sherpas found it difficult to manage the oxygen kit. He cleaned the tube for Tensing, who again gained sufficient speed.
The team of two had to climb on all ours or some time.
By 11.30 AM they had reached the top. They carried Indian, Nepali, British and UN Flags to the top of the world. Tensing buried gifts or his gods. Hillary also placed a tiny cross in the snow.
The world was overjoyed when the news of the conquest of Everest was flashed on the radio.
Plan for future life
How good is man’s life?
The mere living how fit to employ.
All the heart and the soul.
And the senses for everyone enjoy.
Some men says, “Stars make our fate” But to speak truth, it is our own thinking which makes or mars our destiny. Our success often depends on how we choose a profession. A good profession can make our life a pleasant sport. On the other hand a bad one may turn our life into a long disease. So if we want happiness we must think how to choose a profession.
First rule for choosing a good profession –
The best profession is that where we can serve best. it is mistake to choose a profession which can pay more without having capacity for it. If we have no ability we cannot serve well, if we do not serve well, our services may be terminated. So those who only aim at gold, become rolling stones, but those who aim at service permanently make rise and become happy.
Second golden principle –
Another important thing which we should not choose a profession against our taste. A man cannot serve with his whole heart, if he does not like his work. Working without interest soon makes us inefficient, and lazy. Our laziness is danger to our progress. So parents and religions should not crush the taste and ambition of our young men.
Third important condition of choice-
We should also not forget, “Honestly is the best policy?” Dishonest professions are thorn to social life. Good men prefer death to making gambling or black marketing their profession. Money is never greater than man. We should never give Gods throne to gold.
What professions do I like –
I like the honest profession of teaching. My ability and taste are fit for it. It gives me much pain that educational institutions are but degree – making factories. So it is the dream of my life to make students not mere book worms but true nation-builders and servants of humanity.
Man is maker of his destiny. It depends on him to choose either luxury and be kicked or service and be elevated. Rightly says Lord Rama, “Luxury is sweet at first but poison in the end while service which is bitter at first is a road to salvation and all blessings.”
Read about these famous inventors. They brought about revolutionary changes in our lifestyle with their inventions.
John Boyd Dunlop
Dunlop was a veterinary surgeon in Ireland. He had to travel a lot and the solid rubber wheels were uncomfortable. He started experimenting with his son’s tricycle and designed and inflated rubber tube. In 1888, he patented his invention of the modern rubber tyre.
Charles Macintosh
He had a strong interest in chemistry. While working in his lab, he discovered dissolved India rubber. He worked on this solution and discovered a new material that could not be penetrated by water. It was the first waterproof cloth.
Lewis E waterman
He is the inventor of first practical version o the fountain pen. Although pens were already in use then, the problem with old style pens was their ink-flow. Waterman lost a contract when ink from I pen leaked on to the document he was about to sign. He started working to overcome this problem. He was given a paten for it in 1884.
King Camp Gillette
His name is synonymous with shaving and razor blades. Early razors were of the `cut-throat’ variety and shavers needed to sharpen their blade to dangerously sharp levels on leather `stop’ before shaving. Gillette invented the disposable –blade safety razor and this made him and his company a corporate giant around 1900.
Karl Benz
Karl Benz was a German mechanical engineer. He designed and built the world’s first practical automobile in 1885. In 1886, Benz received the patent for gas –fueled car which was a three –wheeler. He built his first four –wheeled car in 1891. By 1900, Benz $ company become the world’s largest manufacturer of automobiles.
Louis Braille
He was a blind Frenchman who invented the Braille system of printing and writing for the visually impaired. He entered the Royal institution for blind youth in Paris when he was ten. Geed student, especially of science and music, he became a teacher after finishing school. He developed his system of reading by utilsing raised dots on paper for letters. Braille also developed a method of writing music.
Kemangudi, a place called trackers hill station, its some what 280-290 km from bangalore a overnight journey. Really awsome place to hangout with friends.
Its not that famous like ooty and kodai, as its under developed hills station, The weather is so pleasant you will forget everything, you will just see fog and dark out by 4 pm in the evening.
But make sure to carry your own food as there is only one hotel whihch is not good, also only one place to accomodate so book in advance.
a long downward tracking towards the fall makes it more happening, just feel the very cold water in d fall.
But be cautious about the litches, its everywhere in during tracking, its advisable to carry salt or detol with you.
also while going its recomended to wear tight shoes and full jeans to avoid litches, thats the only scarry part of tracking else everything is awsome.
after coming back from tracking you will be so tired, a cup of tea makes you feel the taste of wiskey :)
You wont get anything except tea and normal food there so advisable to carry your stuffs well in advace.
The air is so fresh you will love to breath like anything.
I will recomend the travellers to visit the place once. I have seen many places till the date, but I like it the most. a hidden place still good and in full nature because of less human activities.
Kemangudi a track for trackers.
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