Industrial designer Brooks Stevens was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 7, 1911. He became a successful industrial designer, and many of his designs were transportation-related.
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Poliomyelitis (polio) infections began during prehistory, but major polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century. In the 1900s, major polio epidemics began to occur in Europe and then spread to the rest of the world. By 1910, frequent epidemics became regular events throughout the developed world –...
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