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Florence Seibert: From polio survivor to medical pioneer
news and viewsFor Disability History Month, Kip Heath delves into Florence Seibert’s lifelong fight against infectious diseases.
Inventor and visionary: Thomas Edison’s legacy
news and viewsThomas Alva Edison is famous as one of the pioneering inventors of the incandescent light bulb. The ‘light-bulb moment’ is now shorthand for a bright idea, and another of Edison’s inventions, the phonograph, would jump start the record industry - not bad for a man who was himself almost completely deaf. Kip Heath explores Edison's legacy as part of Disability History Month.