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Global Visions

Global Visions

On January 7, 1827, Canadian surveyor, engineer, and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming was born in Scotland. He served as the chief engineer of both the Intercolonial (Maritimes-Quebec) and Canadian Pacific Railways. In what can only be imagined as a stunning eye opener, Fleming saw…

Making 2-D 3-D!

Making 2-D 3-D!

On December 10, 1827, American landscape photographer Benjamin West Kilburn was born. He was the younger brother who eventually took over the family’s business of commercial landscape photography. One of the latest entertainment crazes in Europe, the stereoscope, had arrived in North America. The…

Pressure Situation

Pressure Situation

On December 4, 1906, Doctor Robert Wallace Wilkins was born in Tennessee. He was a clinical investigator of cardiovascular function and disease. Wilkins began his career at Johns Hopkins University as a circulation research associate and instructor in medicine. He became professor, then, Chief…

Research Activist

Research Activist

On November 30, 1900, medical philanthropist Mary Woodward Lasker was born in Wisconsin. Several formative influences helped shape her future direction. Her father was a banker; her mother, a community activist. Lasker suffered childhood ear infections that prompted her growing interests in medical research.…