Tomáš Jan Baťa, CC also known as Tomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml. and “Shoemaker to the World”, ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the 1980s. Baťa was born (17 th... Read more
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig/Gdańsk, a predominantly German-speaking Hanseat... Read more
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography. The company is headquartered... Read more
Charles Darwin, in full Charles Robert Darwin, ( February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England— April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent), English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by... Read more
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography. The company is headquartered... Read more
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC ( 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while servi... Read more
Agency.Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, KCVO (10 May 1848 – 2 October 1931) was a Scotsman of Ulster-Scots parentage who was a self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the... Read more