Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Broad Street pump

John Snow was a physician by trade, but made a huge impact in the field of geography too with his mapping of a major cholera outbreak in London in the mid-1800s.  This is a replica of the pump where he asked that the handle be removed...saving uncountable further deaths.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak


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