Search results for "Inventor" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • in the history of photography, and the inventor of the photographic method known as the zone system. A gifted concert pianist, Adams chose a career ...
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  • as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and inventor. He was nicknamed "The ... in Chinese. He was believed to be the inventor of the mantou (a steamed ...
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  • stars on the Walk, including: George Eastman, inventor of roll film; Thomas Edison, inventor of the first true film projector and holder of numerous ...
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  • teachers, including Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the person who had recently introduced photography to America. Brady quickly ...
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  • second son Flaminio at the age of 18 caused the inventor great distress. His other two sons, Giovanni and Luigi, survived him. Volta entered retirement ...
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  • it dried. He read an article about British inventor Charles Bennett, who had developed a dry method of photography. Eastman experimented with his ...
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  • 7/02/16/AR2007021602102.html The Inventor Who Deserves a Sitting Ovation ... and Robert Adler, inventor of the modern remote, have noted how confusing ...
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  • quot; Richard Felton Outcault, the inventor of color comic strip. Hearst ... Hearst favorite, George Herriman, was the inventor of the dizzy comic strip ...
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  • Cachao López, is often described as "the inventor of the mambo." In the late 1940s, a musician named Perez Prado came up with the mambo ...
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  • Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, and innovator. He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and ...
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  • tampons). He is also credited as being the inventor of the soap opera, with being responsible for the fact that radio (and television after it) is an ...
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  • Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary novel—that is, a novel written in the form of a collection of letters ...
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  • were granted without examination since inventor's right was considered ... given away, or simply abandoned. If an inventor obtains a patent on improvements ...
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  • was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses ...
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  • Though Galileo is often said to be the inventor of the thermometer, what ... However, each inventor and each thermometer was unique—there was ...
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  • Censorship always followed Michelangelo, once described as "inventor delle porcherie" ("inventor of obscenities," in the ...
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  • mayor Joseph Medill; his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. His elder brother was slated to take over the family newspaper ...
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  • October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test. Together with his collaborator, Theodore Simon, Binet ...
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  • He was a first cousin twice removed of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Sherman's mother Mehitable Wellington and Whitney's ...
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  • Louis, daughter of a construction engineer and inventor, John Milton Moore, and his wife, Mary Warner. She grew up in the household of her grandfather ...
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