Rachel Pfeiffer
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Dr. Benjamin Rush: Compassion for the Mentally Ill
This Founding Father improved the quality of life for patients with mental health issues and initiated what is known today as occupational therapy.
The Miraculous Story of How the World’s First Successful Open-Heart Surgery Was Performed
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams’s open-heart surgery saved a life and revolutionized modern surgical practices.
Meet George Ferris, The Engineer Who Designed the Ferris Wheel
Visitors to 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were awed by the size of George Ferris’s Wheel.
How Ben Franklin Came up With the Idea of Public Libraries in the 1700s
The library proposed by Benjamin Franklin and those that followed were instrumental in improving the intellectual lives of many Americans.
