THE WORLD THROUGH OUR SENSES

Senses are physiological capacities of organisms that provide data

for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and
theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most
notably neuroscience, cognitive psychology (or cognitive science),
and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific
sensory system or organ, dedicated to each sense.
Humans have a multitude of senses. Sight (ophthalmoception),
hearing (audioception), taste (gustaoception), smell
(olfacoception or olfacception), and touch (tactioception) are the
five traditionally recognized. While the ability to detect other
stimuli beyond those governed by the traditional senses exists,
including temperature (thermoception), kinesthetic sense
(proprioception), pain








THE LIMITATION OF SIGHT
Magnifying Glass

Inventor :

Roger Bacon


Microscope

Inventor :

Hans Janssen and his son Zaccharis invented the
microscope around 1590. However, Antony Van
Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first man to make
and use a real microscope. He was a Dutch maker of
microscopes and is today known as 'The father of
microscopy'.







Binoculars


Inventor :

Hans Lippershey invented the first binocular,
and Galileo Galilei improve the discovery to build the
first telescope.







Periscope

Inventor
Sir Howard Grubb
Thomas Grubb (1800-1878) founded a telescope
making firm in Dublin. Sir Howard Grubb's father was
noted for inventing and constructing machinery for
printing. In the early 1830s, he made an observatory for
his own use equipped with a 9-inch (23cm) telescope.
Thomas Grubb's youngest son Howard (1844-1931)
joined the firm in 1865, under his hand the company
gained a reputation for the first-class Grubb telescopes.
During the First World War, demand was on Grubb's
factory to make gunsights and periscopes for the war
effort and it was during those years that Grubb
perfected the periscope's design.


Stethoscope

Inventor :

Rene Laennec

The stethoscope was invented by the French physician R.T.H.
Lannec. Ren Thophile Hyacinthe Lannec is generally
considered to be the father of chest medicine.
One day in 1816, Laennec is invited by urchins to hear to
the scratching of a pin transmitted through the length of a
wooden beam. He is thereby inspired to fashion a paper
tube to listen to the chests of his patients.



Loud Speaker


Inventor :

In 1877, German, Ernst Siemens invented the first
loudspeaker on December 14; 1877. A loudspeaker is
an electroacoustic trans-producer which output sound
in reaction to an electrical audio signal input.
Speaker Fundamentals
The typical loudspeaker, or just plain speaker, is built on
a simple yet ingenious concept: the conversion of
electric current to sound. It achieves this by causing a
paper or plastic cone to move. The cone is attached to
a coil of wire that is inserted into a magnet, specifically
into a cylindrical channel cut into the magnet,
according to "How Everything Works." If you pass
electrical current through the wire, the interaction
between the wire and the magnet causes the wire to
move the cone depending on the current's direction.
As the cone moves, it creates disturbances in the air; in
other words, sound.

Invention of the Speaker
This method of converting electricity to sound was first
developed by the German Ernst W. Siemens, who filed
a patent for a "dynamic" or moving coil transducer in
1874. Shortly after, Alexander Graham Bell would be
the first to use this method for audible transmission
when he patented the telephone in 1876. Then, in 1898,
British physicist and inventor Oliver Lodge submitted a
patent for an improved version of the dynamic
loudspeaker, the same year he submitted a far more
famous patent describing a radio tuner, according to
the University of San Diego's History Department.