X-rays and radioactivity were in the scientific air when Robert Cromie created a novel called The Crack of Doom (1895) about a crazy scientist who invents a bomb with “vast stores of etheric energy locked up in the huge atomic warehouse of this planet”.Continue reading Atomic bomb
EVS Translation Blog / Category: Word of the day
2 May /14
Graphomaniac
Of course, the blog also takes up words by special request.Continue reading Graphomaniac
1 May /14
Penny Black or stamps for 175 years
175 years ago today, on 1 May 1840 the world’s first adhesive postage stamp was issued in Great Britain, the Penny Black.Continue reading Penny Black or stamps for 175 years
30 Apr /14
Ambulance
Historical origins of the ambulance Ambulance is a hospital which walks from the Latin ambulantia.Continue reading Ambulance
29 Apr /14
Insulin
Words used for the first time 100 years ago: Insulin was a word which resulted from the work of very young doctors.Continue reading Insulin
