General News of Tuesday, 21 November 2017Source: citifmonline.comFacebook, Google, using my inventions – Ghana’s Dr. Thomas MensahDr. Thomas Mensah, Ghanaian chemical engineer and innovatorGhanaian chemical engineer and innovator, Dr. Thomas Mensah, has said his innovations are being used by technology giants including Facebook, Google, Paypal among others. Until then, fiber optics were available in the lab, and they were making it in two meters per second. So the lasers that are transmitted along this fiber is sending the Facebook pictures, Instagram, the entire social media experience is going through this laser base fiber optics. He said when people are “sending Facebook pictures, YouTube videos, your emails, tweets; everything is going down this [fiber optic] glass and it travels at milliseconds. My latest book is called nanotechnology commercialization.”About Dr. Thomas MensahDr. Thomas had his secondary and tertiary education in Ghana, and managed to secure a scholarship to further his education abroad.

Source: GhanaWeb November 21, 2017 19:18 UTC