About this episode

This episode explores the pioneering efforts of Carolin Hampton in medical gloves and Richard Etheridge's historic life-saving rescue.

Carolin Hampton needed to pioneer rubber gloves int he operating room after Joseph Lister's big ideas. Richard Etheridge was the first Black keeper at an official Life Saving Station and his team's rescue of a shipwrecked family was dramatic and historic.

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