Stephen McWright

Pioneers

Which brand produced the first commercially successful laptop?

In 1983, Compaq produced the most commercially successful portable laptop in this field.

Pioneers

Who and when developed the first robot capable of surgery?

Robotic surgery are types of surgical procedures that are done using robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was developed to try to overcome the limitations of pre-existing minimally-invasive surgical procedures and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons performing open surgery.

Pioneers

Who is the father of DNA fingerprinting in the world?

Although some people claim that the confidentiality of DNA fingerprint databases is violated, DNA fingerprinting plays an extremely important role especially in the fields of forensics, paternity testing and animal identification.

Pioneers

When and by whom was the cable modem invented?

Imagine a world where broadband internet does not exist. In a world without this high-speed data transfer, could the internet continue to be the center of information, photos, movies, and corporate business opportunities as it is today?

Pioneers

Who Invented the Artificial Liver?

When you tell people about the artificial heart, they get pretty excited. In fact, the human heart is not much different from a pump, and people have been using similar pumps in their daily lives for thousands of years.

Arts & Culture

One of the world's best-known serial killers: Charles Manson

By the 1960s he had become a symbol of the dark side of the counterculture. Manson and his followers, who founded a kind of cult called the Manson family, shot and stabbed seven people in two nights to start an interracial war in August 1969. Among the victims of the serial killer was Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of famous director Roman Polanski.