Unsung Heroes Of Technology

Unsung Heroes Of Technology — page 1 — Patricia Bath Saves Eyesight through Invention Patricia Bath's interest in science different kinds of people She grew up wanting to help people by using came from her mother She encouraged her daughter to read Science and bought her a chemistry set Growing up in the 1940s Bath Patricia's mother was descended had to work hard to get where she from African slaves and Cherokee wanted to go Some people had Indians Patricia heard stories about racist views about black people people all around the world from Many also thought that women had her father He had been a sailor no place in the world of science and and a newspaper columnist These technology But Bath's talent was stories got Patricia interested in all impossible to ignore By the age of 16 she was winning science awards FESTIVAL INNOVATION She chose a career in medicine A WARDS TR BECA ELM VAL and worked her way through school She specialized in working with eye health or ophthalmology In 1974 she became a professor at the University of California Los Angeles She Bath received a was the first woman the in 2012 Tribeca Disruptive ophthalmology Innovation Award which department's recognizes individuals who overcame challenges and history contributed to society TR BE INNOVATIO

Unsung Heroes Of Technology — page 2 — Bath developed a new way to remove cataracts Bath began a successful career in Cataract medicine and education But her lasting contribution to the field was an invention In 1981 she had an idea for a new Clear lens Healthy eye type of surgery using lasers These lasers would be used on cataracts A cataract is a condition that affects the lens of the eye Cataracts can cause blurry vision or blindness Lens clouded by cataract Eye with cataract To fix cataracts a machine makes a 30 tiny cut in the eye It then removes the damaged lens Then a new lens is inserted Using a laser the procedure would take only a few minutes Bath designed the new surgery herself but the technology at the time made it impossible It took five years of development Number of years a woman in North Africa had been blind before Bath's device allowed her to see and research Then Bath went to Germany to test it with the most advanced lasers It took a few more years of testing to get a patent It was granted in Bath became interested in science and people at a young age She went to college to study medicine and became an eye doctor She invented a device that uses lasers to cure the United States in 1988 Bath's cataracts device is in worldwide use today She considers it her greatest achievement And restoring sight is her greatest reward The device is in worldwide use and can restore sight to some blind

Unsung Heroes Of Technology — page 3 — Jagadish Bose Makes Wireless Technology Possible Jagadish Bose was born in 1858 the local language and culture Bose read tales of great heroes in India in India At that time India was ruled by Great Britain Bose's father He was inspired by those who came from nothing but did great things wanted to make sure his son grew up knowing his home country He enrolled his son in a Bose went on to a college that specialized in teaching science He had a strong school that taught interest in and talent Bose taught science classes for physical science To pursue a career in for 30 years science he had to go to England He earned a science degree from the University of London But even back in India he had a hard time getting a job The British did not think Indians were capable of being professors Bose was forced to accept a temporary position at a college in Calcutta India He ended up teaching there for 30 years But he

Unsung Heroes Of Technology — page 4 — 100 HUNDERT JE at ADIO ISIS A German stamp showed Marconi and his wireless telegraph Bose's work made this invention possible was able to continue his research Bose experimented with radio waves The idea of sending a signal Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi without wires was a new and exciting used some of Bose's research in his concept Bose created devices that wireless telegraph He won the 1909 could send and receive these waves Nobel Prize for it While Bose's work In 1895 he held a demonstration played a role in Marconi's invention He could send waves 75 feet 23 m he never got credit for it One of the and through walls biggest reasons is that Bose never patented his work He did not have much interest in making money He simply wanted people to benefit from his discoveries Length in millimeters of the radio waves that Bose generated BOSE THE WRITER Bose was born and educated in India Bose's interest in science was creative as well He was also a He studied further in London then came back to India to teach published science fiction writer In 1898 he wrote the first work of science fiction in his native Bengali language He did pioneering research into radio waves but never patented any technology Marconi used Bose's research to invent the wireless

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