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Discover more about Stefan Banic, the Slovakian immigrant who patented then donated an early parachute to the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation and the Army Signal Corp.
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Discover more about Garrett Augustus Morgan... the African-American inventor who patented the first traffic signal in the United States and a breathing device to protect firefighters, a precursor to the modern gas mask.
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Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York to Dutch slaveowners, the Hardenberghs. Overcoming the challenges of slavery, illiteracy, poverty, prejudice, and sexism in her own lifetime, she worked for freedom, to end racism by mobilizing thousands to support the abolition of slavery and support women's suffrage.More
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Known as Michanikos, the Machine Man, little is known with certainty about the life of Heron of Alexandria, including the period in which he lived. What is known, is that he was familiar with the works of Archimedes, Philo of Byzantium, and other Greek inventors.
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During his lifetime, Ctesibius is credited with the invention of the Hydraulis (circa 270 B.C), conducted siphon experiments that advanced steam mechanics further with a broad array of devices created by Hero of Alexandria (10-70 A.D). He is credited with having invented the first “toothed wheel” found in his water clock invention, and may have been the director of the Engineering School of Alexandria during the time of Ptolemaîos Philádelphos (who reigned from 283 to 246 B.C).
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On August 7, 1945, Lise Meitner received a call from a reporter with a Swedish newspaper. He would tell her that the first uranium bomb had been used over Hiroshima. Said to be the equivalent of 20,000 tons of ordinary explosives, the bomb had destroyed five square miles of Hiroshima, killing between 70,000 to 100,000 people. A second would be dropped on Nagasaki with similar consequences.More
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In honor of Black Poetry Day, today's post shares a poem written by Litha Sovell of the Green Belt Movement in Tanzania. The holiday was enacted to celebrate Jupiter Hammon who is considered the first published black poet in the United states, born on the 17th of October 1711.More
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During his lifetime, Galileo Galilei discovered the property of pendulums, perfected the grinding of lenses, developed a theory on why the tides moved, destroyed the idea of an earth-centered universe.
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Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas to Edward & Amy Earhart. She saw her first plane—a biplane with double wings and built of wood, wire and oiled canvas—while attending the Iowa State Fair in 1908.More
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In this October 2021 edition of “What’s New,” you’ll find the latest additions to the storefront as well as new developments.
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Born in Syracuse, Italy around 287BC during what’s come to be known as the Hellenistic period, Archimedes is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians and scientists of antiquity.
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Wangari Maathai was born April 1, 1940 in a traditional mud-walled house with no electricity or running water. She was the first woman from Africa honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and the first woman in East and Central African to earn a doctorate degree.More
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As a WEPs signatory, beYOUteous stands in solidarity with the United Nations to end gender inequality in the workplace, marketplace and community.
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On July 16, 1962 aboard Vosktok 6, on a clear and sunny day, Valentina Tereshkova, nicknamed Valya, became the first woman to travel to space. She was born in Maslennikovo, Russia on March 6, 1937. She'd later be elected as deputy to the Supreme Soviet, become president of the Soviet Women’s Committee and addressed the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Helsinki where the theme of the meeting was “The Role of Women in the Modern World.”More
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Considered one of the greatest writers in the United States, Maya Angelou was the first African-American to work on the streetcars in San Francisco (working for the Market Street Railway Company). She was the first African-American woman to recite her poetry at a US presidential inauguration, the first African-American women to make the non-fiction bestseller’s list, the first African-American woman to have an original screenplay produced for the movie Georgia, Georgia in 1972.More
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Helen Keller, whose name means light was born June 27, 1889 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She lost her vision and became mute February 1882 and later worked on behalf of the blind, campaigning that the major cause of blindness in infants was a condition called ophthalma neonatarum.More
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The Bronze Age is a prehistoric period dated to approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC. It arose following the Chalcolithic period, in which early metals of copper and gold, the first alloys of copper and tin were crafted, from which bronze is derived.
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Born towards the end of 70 BC or beginning of 69 BC, Cleopatra was of Macedonian heritage and reigned as an Egyptian queen, ruling an empire that included Egypt, Cyprus, part of modern-day Libya and other territories in the Middle East.More
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Mary Anning sold seashells by the seashore in a small town on the southern coast of England, part of what is now called the Jurassic Coast. Learn more about her life.
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What exactly is a bead? One definition offered by Merriam Webster is "a small piece of material pierced for threading on a string or wire (as in a rosary)." Throughout history, they've been used for spiritual/devotional purposes, as worry beads, gaming beads, for medicinal purposes, and as a form of currency. They're considered to be one of the oldest forms of trade in history.More
