Tag: Inventor
12-year-old Nigerian pupil gets $11.5m to install her virus-removal air filter in US schools
According to reports out of Connecticut, a 12-year-old Nigerian pupil, Eniola Shokunbi Eniola and her team has received a grant of $11.5 million to...
Inspiring Story of 15 year Old Heman Bekele, “TIME’s 2024 Kid of the Year, treating cancer
By MyEngineersHeman Bekele, a 15-year-old from Fairfax County, Virginia, was named TIME's Kid of the Year for 2024 for his innovative skin-cancer-fighting soap.This recognition...
The Tragedy of an Inventor once heralded and celebrated for his breakthroughs that are now viewed as disaster
Until the 1970s that the damage from his two inventions became widely known, Inventor, Chemical Engineer Thomas Midgley Jr. was celebrated for his role...
The Life of William Shaw: One of the Greatest Deaf Inventor
By Edmund WestWilliam Shaw (1869-1949) was arguably the greatest Deaf inventor. He invented Deaf-friendly doorbells, alarms, clocks, baby monitors and phones.Deaf at five from...
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?
By Sugandha Srivastav, University of Oxford
One argument put forward in defence of fossil fuels is that they were a historical necessity, because there was...
Nigerian Scientists develop mosquito repellent fabric
By Philip YataiProf. Zakari Ladan of the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Kaduna State University (KASU), and other co-researchers, have developed a mosquito...