Quite interestingly, Petros Psyllos, a Polish computer science student with roots from the same Greek island, is making a name for himself with two inventions that are making life easier for those who ...

Polish-born Józef Hofmann was not only a highly acclaimed ... Towards the end of 1887, he began corresponding with Thomas Alva Edison, looking to use one of Edison’s inventions, a cylindrical device ...

Much of this was thanks to his early interest in academics (particularly Jewish philosophy and mathematics), which caught the eye of an important Polish official. His inventions include a distance ...