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At 4 a.m. on June 4, 1896, Henry Ford finished building his first automobile in a brick shed behind his rented duplex in …
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On April 12, 1955, CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to his polio vaccine. Salk’s answer became …
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George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. The Aztecs made ground peanut paste centuries earlier. A Canadian pharmacist patented peanut paste in …
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Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents. He gave us the phonograph, improved the light bulb, and built the first commercial electric power system. But …
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In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find mold growing on a petri dish he had left out. The bacteria around …
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Marie Curie discovered two elements, coined the term “radioactivity,” and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Then she won another …
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Alan Turing: The Codebreaker Who Invented the Computer Age
Alan Turing came up with the theoretical foundation for modern computing. He also helped win World War II by cracking Nazi codes. Then …
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Nikola Tesla is one of those inventors whose work you encounter every day without realizing it. Every time you plug something into a …