Early uses in translations by Trevisa around about 1400 describe asbestos as a material that once lit can never be put out.Continue reading Asbestos
EVS Translation Blog / Category: – A-E
6 May /14
Blurb
With mass production of quality goods came an advertising industry.Continue reading Blurb
5 May /14
Atomic bomb
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
30 Apr /14
Ambulance
Historical origins of the ambulance Ambulance is a hospital which walks from the Latin ambulantia.Continue reading Ambulance
22 Apr /14
Confetti
Confetti brings together two pleasures from Italy – partying and celebrating.Continue reading Confetti
