Later in 1840, Rowland Hill invented the stamp, which was paid for by the sender, not the receiver.
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 ? July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776).
Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller discovered DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) noted its effectiveness as a pesticide during World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops, a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize in 1948.
It was first synthesized in the year 1874.
Charles Macintosh (29 December 1766 ? 25 July 1843) was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics.He devoted all his spare time to science, particularly chemistry, and before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes. His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics.
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