As a female scientist working for a large corporation in the 1950’s, Stephanie Kwolek encountered cynicism and misogyny from many of her male colleagues until she invented Kevlar, a synthetic fiber with almost miraculous properties. Invented in 1963 by scientist Stephanie Kwolek (U.S.), as part of...
Ask anyone whom they think built the first railway locomotive and they will probably say George Stephenson. But, in fact, the railway locomotives are invented by Richard Trevithick and first demonstrated in February 1804. Richard Trevithick (England) was born in the heart of the Cornish tin-mining...
Television first started as a Silhouette images before changes and improvements. In 1925, John Logie Baird (Scotland) demonstration of Silhouette images in London to be the first television pictures. The BBC initially adopted his mechanical system but replaced it in 1937 with Marconi/EMI’s electronic one....