John Mervin NOOTH聽(1737-1828) was an obscure British-born medical man and inventor with a Quebec connection.聽 A distinguished physician, Nooth entered the Royal Society via Benjamin Franklin and...
Mention Frankenstein, and what springs to most people's minds is Boris Karloff鈥檚 portrayal of the 鈥渕onster.鈥� That's because they鈥檝e skipped the book and seen the movie, which is a true Hollywood...
Gutta percha is the hardened latex of the Palaquium gutta tree, originally native to Malaysia. This is a natural 鈥渢hermoplastic鈥� substance, meaning it can be softened with heat and shaped into a...
Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague...
There were no Guinness Records back in 1772, but if there were, Joseph Priestley would certainly have been awarded one for discovering eight new gases in a single year. That is a record that will...
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