This story appears in the December 2008 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe Â». Starting a business was the last thing on Sean Hackney's mind when he sat down to write a business plan. Hoping to persuade a soft drink company to hire him, Hackney scripted a plan for taking on his former employer, Red Bull North America Inc.
1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
The atomic fission bomb was invented in the middle of a London street by Leo Szilard in 1933 and patented the following year. However it was 12 years later in Los Alamos, NM â¦ that the first one was built by the Manhattan Project..G. Wells was the first to envision a nuclear weapon driven by nuclear fission, when he wrote of air dropped 'atomic bombs' in his 1914 novel, The World Set Free. At the time, Wells did not know of the destructive power the such weapons would one day harness.