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Edison Biography

WebThomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio; the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison.When Edison was seven his family moved to Port …

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Thomas Edison's Muckers

WebAlready by the time he moved to Menlo Park in 1876, Thomas Edison had gathered many of the men who would work with him for the rest of their lives. By the time Edison built his …

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Invention of the Cardiac Pacemaker

WebCanadian, John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker. Hopps was trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Manitoba and joined the National Research …

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The History of Medicine

WebGertrude Belle Elion: invented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine and drugs that facilitated kidney transplants. Pap Smear: George Papanicolaou invented the pap smear …

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The Life of Thomas Edison

WebEdison's wife, Mary, died on August 9, 1884, possibly from a brain tumor. Edison remarried to Mina Miller on February 24, 1886, and, with his wife, moved into a large mansion …

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Emmett Chappelle

WebInventors Emmett W. Chappelle. Chappelle is the recipient of 14 U.S. patents and was recently recognized as one of the 100 most distinguished African American scientists …

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The History of Chapstick

WebCarmex is a salve for chapped lips and cold sores invented in 1936. The ingredients in Carmex are menthol, camphor, alum and wax. Alfred Woelbing, the founder of Carma …

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History of Vitamins

WebElmer V. McCollum discovered sometimes around 1915–1916. B1. Casimir Funk discovered in 1912. B2. D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick discovered B2 in 1926. Max Tishler and Robert …

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Joseph Dickinson

WebJoseph Dickinson (also spelt Joseph Hunter Dickinson) of Cranford, New Jersey invented several improvements to different musical instruments. In particular, Joseph Dickinson …

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Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper

WebDied: 1 Jan 1992 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. • Grace Hopper studied at Vassar College and Yale and then joined the Naval Reserve in 1943. In 1944, she started working with Aiken …

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The History of the Transistor

WebBy Mary Bellis The transistor is an influential invention that changed the course of history for computers. The first generation of computers used vacuum tubes; the second generation …

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Seventeenth Century Inventions 1600 to 1699

WebThe earliest human-powered submarine invented. 1624. William Oughtred invents a slide ruler. 1625. Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion. …

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The History of Elastic

WebTo masticate means to chew. In 1821, Thomas Hancock joined forces with the Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics, Charles Macintosh. Together they produced …

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Edison Biography Part 2

WebBiography of Thomas Edison. While working on the phonograph, Edison began working on a device that, "does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear", this was to become …

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The History of HIV Protease Inhibitors

WebBy Mary Bellis HIV protease inhibitors were first invented between 1989 and 1994 by researchers working for the pharmaceutical companies of Hoffmann- La Roche Inc. (of …

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The History of Tea

WebFirst appearing commercially around 1904, tea bags were successfully marketed by tea and coffee shop merchant Thomas Sullivan of New York, who shipped his tea bags around …

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