The Search icon with the magnifying glass seems so familiar nowadays: almost every interface, every computer or web browser, and mobile device have it. However, have you ever thought of why and how it ...

Sherlock Holmes takes a closer look. | Culture Club/GettyImages. When he first whips out his magnifying glass in A Study in Scarlet, Holmes became the first detective in a work of fiction to use ...

Sherlock Holmes was born, magnifying glass in hand, in the 1887 edition of Beeton’s Christmas Annual. In the first chapter of that entry, Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” a ...

Arthur Conan Doyle created dozens of stories about Sherlock Holmes, ... The story is also the first work of detective fiction to use a magnifying glass within the investigation, ...