Thomas Midgley Jr. revolutionized the 20th century with inventions like leaded petrol and CFCs, solving industrial challenges ...

This invention is a life-saver ... country it is today by eradicating the most prevalent STDs of the 20th century and kick-starting the swinging ‘60s. Now, we are prescribed 34 million ...

Sir Dr. NakaMats is one of the greatest inventors of our time; his biggest claim to fame is the floppy disk. Yuriko Nakao One of the oldest chestnuts about inventions involves a 19th-century ...

As Americans reflect on the official end of the twentieth century, we ask ... personalities, science, inventions, and arts. We saw: Titanic, Lindbergh, Challenger, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt ...

THIS book is an attempt to make clear to the general reader the nature of the work of the chemist. That ubiquitous person known as the “man in the street” probably considers that he already ...

The Japanese have said they are the country's greatest invention of the 20th Century - greater even than the Walkman or Tamagotchi. They are instant noodles, which were created in response to food ...