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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...