Search results for "Inventor" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for his successful development ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 17:16, 13 February 2024
- Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (February 26, 1725 – October 2, 1804) was a French inventor. He is believed to have built the first self-propelled mechanical ...6 KB (974 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel (October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer, and the inventor ...8 KB (1,208 words) - 18:04, 20 July 2023
- Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 - January 8, 1825) was an American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer. He is best remembered ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He was one of the most prolific ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- Cartwright is now recognized as the true inventor of baseball. ... cited in recognizing Cartwright as the inventor of the modern game. ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 09:07, 18 July 2023
- Philip Vaughan, a Welsh inventor and ironmaster, patented the first ... The Conrad bearing is named for its inventor, Robert Conrad, who got ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:21, 11 January 2023
- and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- people who sat for him were Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, and U ... law suit so that he might be called "inventor of the telegraph," ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 12:03, 6 September 2022
- of electrical engineering as Nikola Tesla, inventor of the polyphase induction motor; Samuel Morse, inventor of a long-range telegraph; Antonio ...20 KB (2,998 words) - 15:53, 13 February 2024
- Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the triode ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 18:59, 25 October 2022
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (November 18, 1787 – July 10, 1851) was the French artist and chemist who is often credited with being the inventor ...9 KB (1,389 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- Jesuit mathematician, physicist, and inventor Athanasius Kircher also ... *Inventor of hyperbolic functions, Jesuit Vincenzo Riccati ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 16:14, 17 January 2014
- Near the turn of the twentieth century, and American inventor named ... for machine shorthand came from inventor Ward Stone Ireland. Ireland ...10 KB (1,562 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- said to have sponsored Al-Khwarazmi, the inventor of algebra. ... *Brezina, Corona. 2006. Al-Khwarizmi: the inventor of algebra. (Great ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- out Alexander Cartwright as the game's inventor. ==Early years== ... as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor … as upon his brilliant ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 04:50, 14 June 2023
- On the way, they had to battle young inventor Philo T. Farnsworth who ... court.Evan Schwartz, 2003, The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- Baker, The life of Sir Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography) (London: ... *Baker, Alfred. The life of Sir Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- Muslim traditions credit Idris as the inventor of astronomy, writing, and ... Glory." Enoch was also seen as the inventor of writing, and teacher ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- is mentioned elsewhere. was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements ... Watt was an enthusiastic inventor, with a fertile imagination that ...20 KB (3,129 words) - 08:53, 1 April 2024
- In the late 1830s, Henry and Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph ... that it challenged his priority as inventor of the telegraph. Morse ...17 KB (2,654 words) - 04:14, 7 May 2024
- Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 14:46, 28 March 2023
- left Faraday in a stronger position as inventor of the first electric motor. ... Wollaston was an inventor and a painstaking researcher, whose analysis ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 11:01, 9 May 2023
- Chester Carlson, the inventor of photocopying, was originally a patent ... * Owen, David. 2004. Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an ...16 KB (2,312 words) - 22:46, 28 March 2023
- Morton frequently claimed to be the "inventor" of both jazz ... Morton claimed to have been the inventor of jazz. However, he was ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- the head of the school, August Kundt (1839-1894) inventor of the method for determining the velocity of gases and solids. In 1888 Kundt transferred to ...6 KB (842 words) - 03:37, 7 December 2022
- Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 07:27, 12 January 2024
- The term potash has more than one meaning. In a narrow sense, it refers to the salt potassium carbonate (K2CO3). In a broader sense, it is a ...6 KB (830 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- Thomas Alva Edison (February 11,1847 – October 18,1931) was an American inventor and businessman whose most important inventions revolutionized ...26 KB (4,124 words) - 21:08, 30 April 2023
- The identity of the inventor of the electric telephone remains in ... It is important to note that there is probably no single "inventor ...25 KB (3,620 words) - 02:57, 19 April 2023
- Society, is in reference to Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron. The symbol Lw was originally used but in 1963 it was changed to Lr. In August ...6 KB (798 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- also stated that Landini was an inventor of instruments, including a stringed instrument called the "syrena syrenarum," that combined ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- John Logie Baird FRSE (August 14, 1888 - June 14, 1946) was a Scottish scientist, engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- |right|250px|Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach inkblot ... immense project that was not yet completed by the inventor. ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 10:23, 22 January 2024
- of Medicine, and Doctor of Divinity, was the inventor of the sport of basketball. The majority of his 13 Rules of Basketball are in effect in the ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
- one of great assistance to the impulsive inventor. Two years later, the family ... have anything to do with the visionary inventor. E.M. Chaffee, who had founded ...19 KB (3,096 words) - 19:08, 4 December 2023
- British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian period. Amongst many accomplishments, he developed the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, later ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of the braille writing system, the world-wide system used by blind and visually ...8 KB (1,163 words) - 02:52, 4 November 2022
- The first hovercraft was invented and patented by the English inventor ... W. Beardsley (1913-1998), an American inventor and aeronautical engineer ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 19:24, 7 February 2024
- 1891, listing businessman Elijah Bond as inventor of the new "Ouija board ... he erroneously came to be known as the inventor of the Ouija board. Kennard ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- of Eucleides (403 B.C.E.). He was also the inventor of a system of mnemonics according to Quintilian. So unbounded was his popularity that he ...7 KB (1,177 words) - 22:13, 29 January 2023
- by Parmenides. Called by Aristotle the inventor of the dialectic, he is best known for his paradoxes. Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- under a former colleague of Richard Arkwight, inventor of the water-powered cotton mill, he migrated to the U.S. in 1789, despite the fact that Britain ...8 KB (1,244 words) - 03:02, 23 December 2022
- largest satellite, Titan. He was the inventor of the pendulum clock, and ... himself; he was a scholar, scientist, and inventor, and the oldest known pendulum ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- December 24, 1906, Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor, broadcast the first AM radio program, which included him playing O Holy Night on the violin ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:12, 15 June 2023
- Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – c. February 3, 1468) was a German goldsmith and inventor who achieved fame for his ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 15:05, 1 August 2022
- sound, the saxophone is the result of its inventor's realization that there was no instrument that could produce a heavy reed sound with ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Having nowhere else to turn they had contacted inventor and educator of the deaf, Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, DC for help. Bell suggested taking ...8 KB (1,257 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2023
- stagecoach. In 1870, German-Austrian inventor Siegfried Marcus assembled ... In 1806, François Isaac de Rivaz, a Swiss inventor, designed the ...30 KB (4,553 words) - 07:06, 23 August 2023
- the system laid down by kindergarten inventor, Friedrich Froebel. Hill's work laid the foundation for the standards of kindergarten education ...9 KB (1,385 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- 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 ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,855 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- stars on the Walk, including: George Eastman, inventor of roll film; Thomas Edison, inventor of the first true film projector and holder of numerous ...43 KB (6,309 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2022
- teachers, including Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the person who had recently introduced photography to America. Brady quickly ...9 KB (1,405 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- it dried. He read an article about British inventor Charles Bennett, who had developed a dry method of photography. Eastman experimented with his ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 07:36, 15 May 2024
- 7/02/16/AR2007021602102.html The Inventor Who Deserves a Sitting Ovation ... and Robert Adler, inventor of the modern remote, have noted how confusing ...20 KB (3,126 words) - 03:59, 8 December 2022
- quot; Richard Felton Outcault, the inventor of color comic strip. Hearst ... Hearst favorite, George Herriman, was the inventor of the dizzy comic strip ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 10:39, 12 May 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, and innovator. He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and ...26 KB (4,070 words) - 13:48, 18 July 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- 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 ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
- were granted without examination since inventor's right was considered ... given away, or simply abandoned. If an inventor obtains a patent on improvements ...72 KB (10,557 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- Though Galileo is often said to be the inventor of the thermometer, what ... However, each inventor and each thermometer was unique—there was ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 01:20, 19 April 2023
- Censorship always followed Michelangelo, once described as "inventor delle porcherie" ("inventor of obscenities," in the ...21 KB (3,322 words) - 17:11, 9 November 2022
- mayor Joseph Medill; his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. His elder brother was slated to take over the family newspaper ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:14, 16 December 2022
- October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test. Together with his collaborator, Theodore Simon, Binet ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 07:14, 20 July 2023
- He was a first cousin twice removed of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Sherman's mother Mehitable Wellington and Whitney's ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- 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 ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- were many. He became known as the inventor of the Louis XIV Style and also gave direction to the national tendencies which endured centuries ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- twenty years previously, and that he had met the inventor. Based on this evidence, Redi credited another Dominican monk, Fra Alessandro da Spina of ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 00:00, 25 March 2024
- financial publications in the world, the inventor of the Dow Jones industrial average and the proponent of Dow Theory, Dow’s contributions ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- the diode law (named after transistor co-inventor William Bradford Shockley ... Zener of Southern Illinois University, inventor of the device. ...25 KB (3,818 words) - 17:12, 22 July 2020
- write a lengthy monograph on his hero, the artist/inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and every day of his adult life he would write incredibly learned entries ...10 KB (1,586 words) - 22:18, 4 March 2023
- 敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of the first Gothic alphabet. He was probably descended from Christians of Anatolia who were ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- found. The Han Dynasty astronomer and inventor Zhang Heng (78 - 139 C.E ... nothing new. The Chinese astronomer and inventor Zhang Heng (78-139 C.E. ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- become his mentor as well. Naismith was the inventor of basketball and the first basketball coach at Kansas. In the Fall of 1937, he took a psychology ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- William Sachs, a prosperous manufacturer and inventor. Sachs grew up in Tiergarten, a fashionable section of town, with her parents. She was educated ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist ... father of differential psychology, the inventor of fingerprint identification ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- * Inventor of the Week Archive: The Digital Compact Disc Massachusetts Institute of Technology. == External links == All links retrieved November ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 10:36, 11 March 2023
- under the guidance of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of the process. [[Image:Weber.jpg|right|frame|Carl Maria von Weber]] In 1800, the family ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age ... in the city of Lund, in 1716. The Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem, who ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- grating was made around 1785 by Philadelphia inventor David Rittenhouse, who strung hairs between two finely threaded screws. This was similar to notable ...13 KB (1,983 words) - 14:34, 29 January 2024
- Mikimoto Kōkichi (御木本 幸吉. Japanese); (March 10, 1858 – September 21, 1954) was a Japanese pearl farmer, inventor of the cultured ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 17:55, 9 November 2022
- Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 22:57, 10 November 2022
- *Dave Boggs, co-inventor of Ethernet *John Cioffi, father of DSL (broad ... *Ted Hoff, inventor of the microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- Fresnel is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fresnel lens, first adopted in lighthouses while he was a French commissioner of lighthouses ...11 KB (1,814 words) - 21:58, 30 November 2021
- created in China around 180 C.E. by the prolific inventor Ting Huan (丁緩). Driven by convection, Ting Huan's device hung over a lamp. The rising ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- In this context, Enlil was also known as the inventor of the pickaxe/hoe (favorite tool of the Sumerians) who caused plants to grow and mankind ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- came in 1920, when he investigated Charles Ponzi, inventor of the fraudulent Ponzi scheme, for the Boston Post. His aggressive questioning and common ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- | caption = Mechanical Engineer and Inventor | birth_date = June 9, 1781 ... htm George Stephenson: Inventor of the Steam Locomotive Engine ]. ...23 KB (3,591 words) - 00:40, 14 November 2022
- but when he heard about the accomplishments of an inventor of the "telharmonium," Busoni was overwhelmed. He saw the need for a new vision in ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- hydrogen instead of oxygen. He was also an inventor, and the mentor of Michael Faraday, who for many years was Davy’s assistant and whose researches ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 20:56, 9 February 2024
- to obtain) are means for the breeder or inventor to obtain financial reward for developing a new cultivar (Gepts 2004). With plants produced by ...14 KB (2,107 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- known as R.F. Outcault, he is considered the inventor of the modern comic strip and credited for making comic strips a lasting part of American society ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 20:15, 8 December 2022
- (also known as eodarwinism). Wright was the inventor/discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and F-statistics, standard tools in population genetics ...14 KB (1,960 words) - 19:51, 21 April 2023
- As the introducer of fire and inventor of crafts, Prometheus was seen as the patron of human civilization, thus, it is not surprising that he ...12 KB (1,993 words) - 23:54, 1 December 2022
