Documents. 1  Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World: guidelines for natural disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation. 2  Report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 18â22 January 2005 in PDF format. 3  Timetable for Kobe conference in PDF format.
Bessie Blount, was a physical therapist who worked with soldiers injured in W.W.II. Her war service inspired her to patent a device, in 1951, that allowed amputees to feed themselves.
Benjamin Franklin invented the Lazy Susan, but never applied for a patent. The US Patent Office lists Devee J. and Christopher Govrik, of St. Paul, MN, as the inventors. Several sites say the Twist-Off Bottle Cap was invented in 1956, but don't say by whom. Office says that was invented by John C. Henning of Fairfield, OH. people for variations of it. Gail Borden Jr. invented condensed milk, a locomotive bath house and a meat biscuit.