The largest cell in the world is an ostrich’s egg. Before fertilization, the entire interior of the egg consists of a single cell, which is approximately 15 cm long and 13 cm wide and weighs up to 2.3 kgs (5 pounds).

Evangelista Torricelli,  Italian physicist and mathematician who invented the barometer.He did this in in 1643.

Edison and his team of researchers in Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880. In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament.