Gallery: Each of These Illustrated Letters Depicts a Breakthrough Invention
Illustration: Khyati Trehan01E for Edison
Khyati Trehan created a series of illustrated letters that depict some of the most important scientific and technological advancements of our time. E is for Edison invention of the phonograph.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan02F for Faraday
here’s an invention for almost every letter of the alphabet, each corresponding to the person who was credited for making the discovery. Here is F for Michael Faraday, who discovered electromagnetic induction, the principle behind generators.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan03O for O.L
O is for Earnest Orlando Lawrence, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan04B for Boyle
The B is for Robert Boyle and his law of ideal gases, which Trehan describes as the "inversely proportional relationship between the absolute volume and pressure of a gas if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system."
Illustration: Khyati Trehan05T for Tesla
Trehan illustrates Nikola Tesla's rotating magnetic field. The entire process is broken down into separate components that can be formed into a T shape.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan06Stippling sheets
Early sketches of the letters.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan07A for Archimedes
A is for Archimedes of Syracuse, one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. He created the eponymous screw which had a rotating screw inside a cylinder that lifted liquids from a low-lying body of water. Back in Archimedes days, it was used for irrigation and pumping out water-logged ships. Today it's still used today to lift grains and liquids.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan08H for Hero
Hero of Alexandria is a greek mathematician who created the first steam engine. The device consists of a sphere and two nozzles. When pressurized with steam, the steam escapes through the nozzles and makes the sphere spin.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan09L for Leeu
L is for Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, a dutch scientist who is known as the father of microbiology. He invented this high-powered microscope, which allowed him to observe organisms in water. And sperm.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan10W for Whitney
Eli Whitney's cotton gin as re-imagined by Trehan. The device had teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder that pulled cotton fiber through small openings .This separated the seeds from the lint while a rotating brush cleared the lint from the spikes.
Illustration: Khyati Trehan11Z for Zworykin
Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin created the iconoscope, the main television camera up until the mid 1940s.
