TRIVIA BITS

 

• John Dunlop invented the Pneumatic tyre from a section of garden hose for his sons tricycle
• John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.
• John L. Sullivan, a famous bareknuckle boxer, once took 75 rounds to knock out his opponent, Jake Kilrain
• John Lennon's middle name was Winston.
• John Milton used 8,000 different words in his poem, "Paradise Lost."
• John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.
• John Winthrop introduced the fork to the American dinner table for the first time on 25 June 1630.
• Johnny Weissmuller, the Hollywood Tarzan won swimming gold medals in the Olympics in 1924.
• Joseph and Etienne Montigolfier, inventers of the hot air balloon, first believed that their balloon didn't rise due to hot air but an invisible gas given off by fire. They named it Montigolfier Gas.
• Joseph Swan invented a light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison. But Swan didn't patent his idea and was accused of copying by Edison ( who did patent the idea and is therefore recognised as the inventor ) until it was shown both bulbs were produced in different processes. They then formed a joint company using the best of both technologies.