🗞️ Australian inventor brothers Edward and Donald Both changed lives, but 'no-one's heard of them'

Australian inventor brothers Edward and Donald Both changed lives, but 'no-one's heard of them'

They developed electric vans and scooters in the 1940s, invented a portable heart monitor and saved thousands of people suffering from polio, so why aren't the Both brothers household names in Australia?

An electric scooter doesn't have that much in common with a humidicrib. Or a fax machine. You wouldn't expect someone who made heart monitors to be your first port of call when you wanted an Olympic scoreboard. Yet all of these inventions — and aroun... [10235 chars]

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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation