On December 12, 1917, an overloaded troop train derailed at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, France. The Rail accident’s official death toll was 573, but there could have been as many as 1,000 soldiers deaths. Continue reading
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Daniel Cohen
Co-Founder of Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, now called Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH.
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The Human chromosome mapped
Published in October 1992 in the journals Nature and Science, were the Human chromosome gene-linkage maps. Continue reading
aeronautical society
The Societe Aerostatique, was the first aeronautical society, founded in 1852, in the city of Paris, France Continue reading
The Safety Razor
The French barber by the name of Jean-Jacques Perret invented in 1762, the Safety razor. Continue reading
Stamp albums for keeping stamp collections
In 1862, Paris, France, Justin Lathier introduced stamp albums for keeping stamp collections. Continue reading
Woman printer of note
Charlotte Guillard of Paris, France (She died in 1556), worked in the printing businesses with both of her husbands to which she outlived, afterwards she ran her own shop. Continue reading
Synthetic fibre called Rayon
Rayon, a synthetic fibre derived from cellulose was patented in 1884 by Count Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, who began producing it in a factory, commercially in 1892 at Besancon, France. Continue reading
Map of the human genome
The Rudimentary detail by researchers under Daniel Cohen in 1993 at the centre for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, France, prepared the map of the human genome. Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Continue reading