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20 things you didn't know were invented by #women
https://buff.ly/Wp3oNC7

#inventors #innovation #creativity #curiousity #practicalsolution #revolutionary!

Good Morning #Canada
Today, we share the story of a Canadian inventor who was both the father of the petroleum industry and the savior of whales. Abraham Pineo Gesner (May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene in the 1850s. His new fuel, distilled from coal, quickly replaced whale oil in lamps, reducing the slaughter of the large mammals.

#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://notyourgrandfathersmining.ca/abraham-gesner-kerosene

25 #Inventions That Killed Their #Inventors

https://list25.com/25-inventions-that-killed-their-inventors/

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #77: Office chairs with wheels were invented by Charles Darwin.

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UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’

Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material returns it to the soil for crops

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/02/uk-scientist-wins-prize-for-invention-that-could-help-avert-phosphogeddon

#OTD in 1904.

Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio program, a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. By 1899 he was able to send radiotelegraph messages between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City (now an area of Pittsburgh), using a receiver of his own design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Fessenden