People who have profoundly influenced your life who you never heard of
Bucky
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Wed Dec-19-07 01:25 PM
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People who have profoundly influenced your life who you never heard of |
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Ignacy Łukasiewicz turned petroleum into kerosene oil, the same basic process for making gasoline today
Cai Lun invented paper (or is traditionally credited with doing so). Sheep around the world should worship this man
Dénes Mihály figured out how to turn radio waves into images. Today we call that the idiot box.
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