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• Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone.
• He was awarded the first successful patent for it.
• The telephone was invented in 1876.
• Bell made the first-ever telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson.

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• The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne, invented the hot-air balloon.
• Their first public demonstration took place in Annonay, France, on 4 June 1783.
• In 1783, a hot-air balloon carrying passengers successfully flew near Paris.
• The Montgolfier brothers are regarded as pioneers of human flight.

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• Ibn al-Haytham presented the theory of reflection and refraction of light.
• He is also known as Alhazen.
• His work, particularly his "Book of Optics", is titled Kitab al-Manazir, written during 1011–1021.
• Born: c. 965 (c. 354 AH) Basra, Buyid Emirate
• Died: c. 1040 (c. 430 AH)[1] (aged around 75) Cairo, Fatimid Caliphate

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• The term “antigen” was coined in 1899 by Ladislas Deutsch (László Detre).
• The word is derived from “antibody-generating” (anti + gen).

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• Louis Pasteur is famous for his work on vaccination and germ theory.
• Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine.

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Sandra Harding

• Developed feminist epistemology; identified three approaches:
• Feminist empiricism (1986, The Science Question in Feminism)
• Standpoint theory (1991, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?)
• Postmodern feminism (1986, later works)

Additional information

• Simone de Beauvoir — The Second Sex (1949)
• Judith Butler — Gender Trouble (1990)
• Betty Friedan — The Feminine Mystique (1963)