The Importance of Pumps in Engineering

It took nearly 200 years before we worked out that the sperm and the egg were both involved in the act of fertilization. John Rock and Miriam Menken, who were the first to fertilize an egg and a sperm in the lab, you know, paving the way for IVF babies. The original breast pumps were a derivation of the pumps that were, in fact, invented for milking cows,. And it's actually kind of shocked me that it was only really in the 1990s that electrical breast pumps came to market.