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When was the first vaccination invented?

In 1796, the first vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner for the disease small pox. For the first time he tested the possibility of using the vaccine of cowpox as a vaccination of smallpox in ...

When was the Insulin discovered?

In 1869, insulin was discovered in the pancreas by a Berlin student Paul Langerhans. The Romanian scientist Nicolae Paulescu discovered the insulin in 1916. Two Canadian scientists Banting and Macleod after 4 years won the ...

When was the Hearing Aid invented?

In 1898, the first electric hearing aid was invented by Miller Reese Hutchinson and the company Akoulathon built and sold this instrument. He later improved his invention in 1901 and the first wearable hearing aid ...

When was the Body Mass Index invented?

Between the year 1830 and 1850 the Body Mass Index was invented by Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet when he was developing the course of social physics. Body mass index is calculated by dividing the individual's body ...

When was Band Aid invented?

In the year 1920, an employee of Johnson and Johnson Company, Earle Dickson invented the first band aid. The band aid was invented for his wife Josephine Dickson, who often burned and cut herself while ...

When was Thermometer invented?

The earliest thermometers were very simple in design. In 1593, an early water thermoscope was invented by Galileo Galilei. In 1612, the first crude clinical thermometer was invented by an Italian inventor Santorio Santorio. Both ...

When was Bionic Ear invented?

Professor Graeme Clark along with his team of scientists made bionic ear in the year 1978 in Melbourne in Australia. The people who are totally deaf use the bionic ear.

When was the first Internal Pacemaker invented?

The first cardiac pacemaker was invented in the year 1950 by Canadian John Hopps. In the year 1958, Wilson Greatbatch invented the first implantable pacemaker. The internal pacemaker is a device that regulates the rhythm of ...

When was Carmex invented?

Alfred Woelbing in 1936 invented Carmex that is a lip balm meant to cure the chapped lips and cold sores. Carmex was invented by him as he was infected by cold sores.

When was gene splicing invented?

In the year 1973, the gene splicing was invented by Herb Boyer along with Stanley Cohen. It is a procedure to cut a gene of an organism and then pasting into others' DNA. By doing ...

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