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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
- term. In addition, Thurstone is recognized as the inventor of exploratory factor analysis, a more practical variation than the confirmatory factor analysis ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 04:24, 6 October 2022
- Electroplating involves the coating of an electrically conductive object with a layer of metal using electrical current. Usually, the process ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 17:16, 29 December 2021
- | occupation = Physicist and inventor | prizes = Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1898 | death_date = August 22, 1940 | death_place = Wiltshire ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- Dr. William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an early American inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- by German-American instrument builder and inventor Otto Schlicht. author=Dan Michael Worrall|title=The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 15:46, 27 December 2023
- a hefty cash award of 12,000 Francs to any inventor who could come up with a cheap and effective method of preserving large amounts of food. The ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- Wilhelm von Schlegel) that Aeschylus was the inventor of tragedy, "Aeschylus is to be considered as the creator of Tragedy: in full panoply she ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- worker, engineer, military general, inventor, lacemaker, technologist ... theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- Scottish inventor Alexander Bain is often credited with the first fax patent in 1843. He used his knowledge of electric clock pendulums to produce ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 01:51, 26 March 2024
- 2, 1969, to Marie Brown, an African American inventor. The system used television surveillance. == Access control and bypass codes == ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor, and poet. Darwin was also one of the founding members of the Lunar Society, that Wedgwood later joined. ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 05:23, 7 May 2024
- engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered ... why Karl Benz is regarded by many as the inventor of the automobile. ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 18:12, 14 May 2024
- established by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Unable to carry out his delicate experiments in Berlin, he was given space ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- and among his players was James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.[http://athletics.uchicago.edu/history/history-stagg.htm University of Chicago ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 17:21, 26 July 2023
- aunt, Lisette, was married to the English-born inventor and industrialist, Samuel Owen. Carl Oscar Strindberg's older brother, Johan Ludvig Strindberg ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 18:29, 21 August 2023
- In 1893, the German inventor Heinrich Göbel claimed he had developed ... In the 1890s, the Austrian inventor Carl Auer von Welsbach worked ...44 KB (6,810 words) - 12:43, 4 March 2024
- Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his pioneering work in the use of radio wave transmissions ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
- Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, ...61 KB (9,138 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- The later tradition of Pythagoras as the inventor of mathematics stems largely from the Roman period. Whether or not the Pythagorean theorem ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:55, 7 December 2022
- an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound," a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- To the credit of Jefferson the inventor, the first floor is replete with decorative and mechanical features as well as furnishings which make ...14 KB (2,117 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- of UniGraphics and IDeas, Autodesk Inventor, Alibre Design, TopSolid, T-FLEX CAD, SolidWorks, and Solid Edge) require the operator to use what ...14 KB (2,113 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- was developed between 1905 and 1908 by German inventor Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe. The American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design in 1910 ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 08:50, 29 July 2023
- Robert Hutchings Goddard, Ph.D. (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American scientist and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- the Emperor Charles V erected a statue to the inventor of bloaters. In Scandinavia, herring soup is also a traditional dish. In Southeast Alaska ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 22:35, 1 January 2023
- architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, musician, and painter. Leonardo was the archetype "Renaissance man," ...29 KB (4,455 words) - 08:02, 6 March 2023
- the property of the author; to assure the inventor the property and temporary ... represents a legal right obtained by an inventor providing for exclusive ...48 KB (6,876 words) - 22:55, 5 February 2023
- Fowler, an English agricultural engineer and inventor. In America the firm soil of the Plains allowed direct pulling with steam tractors, such ...30 KB (5,003 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- of the cotton gin in 1793 by American inventor Eli Whitney. The cotton gin was a simple machine that removed the cotton fiber from the seeds ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, and the son of astronomer William Herschel. He published several star catalogs based on his ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- a linear motor propelled train were awarded to the inventor, Alfred Zehden (German). The inventor gained a patent on June 21, 1902 ...31 KB (4,504 words) - 05:00, 5 November 2022
- Joan Crawford, and Fidel Castro stayed there. Inventor Nikola Tesla spent the last ten years of his life in near-seclusion in Suite 3327, where he ...16 KB (2,157 words) - 21:59, 14 November 2022
- was already available. The Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla had already dreamed up the basic principles of a polyphase electric motor. ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 00:24, 24 November 2022
- that the morale was alarmingly low. He was the inventor of the first street lights (oil lamps) in Copenhagen, and worked hard to try to control the ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- from her father, who was an engineer and inventor in the printing business (he worked on improvements to the Braille press). Her mother described ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- M. Welte & Sons, Inc., of New York City, the inventor and first producer of reproducing pianos. In 1924 Gershwin was commissioned by conductor ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- a motion picture camera. He was filmed by its inventor, W.K. Dickson, and he blessed the camera afterward. == Beatification and canonizations== ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 20:07, 25 October 2022
- Von Neumann was also the inventor of the method of proof, used in ... Donald Knuth cites von Neumann as the inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- a result of this book, Stendhal is considered the inventor of the psychological novel. Stendhal's style was highly allusive, with copious ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- while his father, Joseph Ravel, was a Swiss inventor and industrialist. A few of Joseph's inventions are quite important. Among them is an early ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- The inventor of the printed circuit was the Austrian engineer Paul Eisler (1907–1995), who made one in England around 1936, as part of a radio ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 22:58, 30 November 2022
- number=1,245,860|m=11|d=06|y=1917|title=Electrically driven tool|inventor=S. D. Black & A. G. Decker Retrieved September 20, 2008. ...16 KB (2,609 words) - 21:09, 30 January 2024
- William Tubby as a home for William H. Childs (inventor of [[Bon Ami|Bon Ami Cleaning Powder]]).]] The largest concentration of Ethical Societies ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- de Ponton d'Amécourt, a French inventor who demonstrated a small ... In 1907, the French inventor Paul Cornu made a helicopter that used ...42 KB (6,643 words) - 23:04, 3 February 2022
- Though Johann Nepomuk Mälzel is considered to be the inventor of the metronome, he copied several mechanical ideas of Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel ...18 KB (2,794 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- "The remarkable Nellie Bly, inventor of the metal oil drum," Petroleum Age, 12/2006, 5. After a long hiatus from reporting, she went ...15 KB (2,430 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and ...39 KB (5,259 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- English inventor Sir Samuel Morland allegedly used gunpowder to drive water pumps in the seventeenth century. For more conventional, reciprocating ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- quot;the first tiller of the soil" and the inventor of wine. According to the Genesis account, Noah labored faithfully to build the Ark—no ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- flower Petunia. He quizzed an employee on the inventor of the flower. When the employee pretended to be ignorant on the subject, the colonel said that ...17 KB (2,719 words) - 23:29, 17 May 2023
- of life after death. Swedenborg was a respected inventor and scientist, but at the age of fifty six he entered into a spiritual phase in which he experienced ...19 KB (2,785 words) - 04:07, 9 November 2022
- of Darmstadt. Arthur was also an inventor and designer of electrical control gear, and later in life, a patent attorney. Simon’s mother, Edna ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
- and Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel, the inventor of the kindergarten. === John Dewey === John Dewey, the American philosopher and educator, ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 23:07, 30 November 2022
- | Occupation = Musician, Songwriter, Inventor | Instrument = Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica | Associated_acts = Les Paul and Mary ...17 KB (2,630 words) - 22:00, 25 October 2022
- * Moseley, Maboth. Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage, Inventor. * Schwarz, K.K. Faraday and Babbage. Notes and Records of the Royal ...17 KB (2,481 words) - 01:55, 4 December 2023
- In 1839, American inventor Charles Goodyear was experimenting with ... of use. An American printer and amateur inventor named John Wesley Hyatt ...34 KB (5,272 words) - 07:59, 24 November 2022
- that Bosch was regarded merely as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras." In the early seventeenth century, the Dutch art historian Karel ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- A propeller is a device used for the propulsion of a vehicle such as an aircraft, ship, or submarine though a medium such as air or water. By ...19 KB (3,022 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- ] MIT World. Retrieved November 8, 2008. "Inventor James Dyson on the Art of Engineering: quote: A member of the British Design Council, James ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- concerns the adventures of a maverick inventor in Nautilus, a submarine ... It was the submarine of the Polish inventor Stefan Drzewiecki—50 units ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- * 1870. Woman As Inventor. Fayetteville, NY: F.A. Darling. * 1881. History of Woman Suffrage. Chapters by Cady Stanton, E., Anthony, S.B., Gage ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- physical chemistry. As a mathematician, he was an inventor of vector analysis. The American Mathematical Society has described him as one of the greatest ...19 KB (2,786 words) - 05:25, 7 May 2024
- of the body of a juggler. Luke Burrage, the inventor of beatmap, claims that beatmap can more accurately describe more patterns than all ladder ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 09:05, 12 May 2024
- in cognitive psychology, best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. *Albert Potter Wills--Notable for his work on magnetic materials ...22 KB (3,029 words) - 10:50, 19 December 2023
- The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after its inventor ...52 KB (7,562 words) - 23:57, 12 March 2023
- evidence exists to suggest that he was truly the inventor of paper. At the very least, he established the importance of paper and standardized its manufacture ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- in shaping their research. William Crookes, inventor of the Crookes tube, suffered from a lack of mathematical skills and is said to have often ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 10:37, 13 December 2023
- Even in the hands of its inventor, it was slower than handwriting ... recognize Fr. Azevedo as the real inventor of the typewriter, a claim ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- he was to become famous as an inventor partly on the basis of these recipes. In 1906, responding to the direction of Booker T. Washington to ...18 KB (2,882 words) - 01:30, 23 November 2022
- A rocket is a vehicle, missile, or aircraft that obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within a rocket engine ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- *Bird, Anthony and Gottlieb Daimler. Gottlieb Daimler, Inventor of the Motor Engine. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962. *Dineen, Jacqueline ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- light. Germer is recognized today as the inventor of the fluorescent lamp. ... named Agapito Flores was the original inventor of the fluorescent light ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- photo portrait was made by Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph. The possibilities were enormous, but for many artists, a point of concern ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 01:40, 8 December 2022
- first described in 1206 by Iraqi engineer and inventor al-Jazari when the kings of the Artuqid dynasty in Turkey commissioned him to manufacture a ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- of innkeeper James Hutchings. A natural born inventor, Muir designed a water-powered mill to cut wind-felled trees and he built a small cabin for ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 03:01, 2 May 2024
- Monteverdi proved to be an inventor and a daring composer. His music followed modern trends, and, like his colleague in Venice, Dario Castello ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- of his teachers may also have been the French inventor Brutus de Villeroi, who was professor of drawing and mathematics at the college in 1842, and ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- Sir George Cayley, the inventor of the science of aerodynamics, was building and flying models of fixed-wing aircraft as early as 1803, and he ...20 KB (3,021 words) - 07:09, 16 June 2023
- | occupation = Author, Inventor | nationality = British (English) and ... was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous ...45 KB (6,700 words) - 11:08, 16 August 2023
- er/dossier/optrec/index.html The Inventor of the CD.] Retrieved October 27, 2007. . The Compact Disc reached the market in late 1982 in Asia, ...19 KB (3,102 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- of information. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, imagined ... /news/2017/03/11/world-wide-webs-inventor-warns-s-peril/99005906/ ...44 KB (6,310 words) - 00:32, 25 March 2024
- * [http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/LOG/index.htm Jost Burgi, Swiss Inventor of Logarithms]. * [http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/logarithm/ ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- ===Paul the inventor of Christianity=== Among Jews, the opinion is widely held that Paul "invented" Christianity by combining the sectarian ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process ... Arkwright, industrial spinning machine inventor; Charles Babbage, computer ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The first successful locomotives were built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick. In 1804 his unnamed locomotive hauled a train along the tramway ...22 KB (3,331 words) - 07:49, 9 March 2023
- soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, George Eastman (inventor of the Kodak camera), poet Edwin Markham, and symphony conductor Leopold Stokowski. In 1927, he ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- The S.W.A.T.H. theory was further developed by Dr Thomas G. Lang, inventor of improvements to the semi-submerged ship (S3) in about 1968. Basically ...20 KB (3,218 words) - 17:50, 30 November 2023
- Benz is generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and many of the elements, such as an accelerator, an ignition ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 00:05, 24 June 2022
- Sakichi Toyoda (1867-1930) was a prolific inventor from Shizuoka Prefecture. He established his loom business in Nagoya, where his sequence of ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- Achille Victor Emile Daubresse, forgotten prism inventor.] Retrieved October 13, 2007. Most roof prism binoculars use either the Abbe-Koenig prism ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- talented business manager, mechanic, and even an inventor who had become wealthy in part from running his own general store. The next year, after ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- * Lars Leksell (neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery) * Joseph Lister (discoverer of surgical sepsis; Listerine named in his honor) ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 23:38, 18 September 2021
- The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U ...23 KB (3,473 words) - 01:21, 3 May 2023
- Electrical engineering (sometimes called electrical and electronics engineering) is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- Abbas Ibn Firnas is also claimed as the inventor the first manned glider in 875 by fixing feathers to a wooden frame fitted to his arms or back ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- by dice and shut-the-box". He was the inventor of the sestina, a song of six stanzas of six lines each, with the same end-words repeated in ...21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:25, 2 May 2023
- based primarily on the work of Swiss-born inventor François Dussaud, was exhibited ... as well. For some years, American inventor E. E. Norton's Cameraphone ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- harp and the organ;" the shepherd god Pan, inventor of the pan pipes; and Mercury, who is said to have made a dried tortoise shell into the first lyre. ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- Scotland had been founded by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, after whom the Nobel Prize is named. This left the sole United Kingdom gunpowder ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- greatly to science as well. As the inventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes founded analytic geometry, the bridge between algebra ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- called the Fosbury Flop, named after its inventor Dick Fosbury. Instead of straddling the bar with the stomach, Fosbury's technique was ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- *Chi You (蚩尤 chi1 you2): War god. Inventor of metal weapons. Nemesis of Huang Di. *Da Yu (大禹): Da Yu regulates the courses of rivers ...23 KB (3,481 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- was in operation. It was first operated by the inventor, Michael Owens, an employee of Libby Glass Company. Within a few years, glass bottle production ...25 KB (3,852 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- *Alter, Judy. Samuel F.B. Morse: Inventor and Code Creator. Chanhassen, MN: Child's World, 2003. ISBN 9781567664461 * American Radio Relay ...27 KB (4,108 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Ivan Mueller, a Russian-born clarinetist and inventor, developed a new type of pad which was covered in leather or fish bladder. This was completely ...30 KB (4,861 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- Huygens, however, is usually credited as the inventor. He determined the mathematical formula that related pendulum length to time (99.38 centimeters ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- von Neumann can rightfully be credited as the inventor of game theory. Von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician whose work was far-reaching—from ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- of the company by purchasing it from the inventor of the drink, John Pemberton. Candler had become wealthy from promoting the popular soft drink ...26 KB (3,754 words) - 18:26, 13 February 2024
- and ceilings, was built in 1895 for inventor Waldo C. Bryant. The Carstensen Hall, a facsimile of a pavilion at the 1893 Columbian Exposition ...30 KB (4,093 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2023
- more defenses, running from 1958 to 1980. The inventor of the cunningham sail control device to increase performance, Briggs Cunningham, skippered ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- ENTP (Extroverted intuiting with thinking): Inventor. These are lively people, not humdrum or orderly. As mates, they are a little dangerous ...29 KB (4,215 words) - 22:41, 10 November 2022
- the industrialization of Europe, inventor of the first steam engine in the eighteenth century). The film Die Waffen nieder by Holger Madsen and ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- " to honor Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph. Aline Mosby, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ca9NAAAAIBAJ&pg=7065,1739274 ...32 KB (4,552 words) - 19:47, 20 February 2023
- Shen Kuo (1031-1095), a famous Chinese scientist, inventor, mathematician, and statesman. Medieval universities did not exist in Asia in the strict ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- sequence directed by Louis Le Prince, French inventor and showman, on October 14, 1888, in Leeds, Yorkshire. This groundbreaking event happened seven ...29 KB (4,666 words) - 22:03, 10 December 2023
- Simon Kuznets, the inventor of the GDP, had this to say in his very first report to the U.S. Congress in 1934: …the welfare of a nation [can ...33 KB (5,148 words) - 19:46, 7 July 2023
- * Herbert F. Mataré, An Inventor of the Transistor has his moment. 24 February 2003 The New York Times. [http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2003/Transistor ...30 KB (4,329 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2023
- In 1805, American inventor Oliver Evans designed but never built a refrigeration system based on the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle rather ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- it in the third person, so that “the inventor” and “he” referred ... ... The inventor made some experiments to ascertain the effect of ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from ...27 KB (4,163 words) - 02:49, 24 July 2023
- when a concept becomes so popularized that its inventor is forgotten. In this process of "obliteration by incorporation," both the original ...30 KB (4,398 words) - 21:28, 16 April 2023
- , was discovered in 1441 C.E. The inventor was Jang Young Sil, a Korean engineer of the Choson Dynasty, under the active direction of the King ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 13:24, 6 March 2024
- presents himself as a "transmitter and not an inventor." He put the greatest emphasis on the importance of study, and the Chinese character ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- wheel" system (developed by inventor Peter Goldmark) in the early 1950s. Although CBS occasionally would use NBC facilities or its own small ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- as well. The Chinese astronomer and inventor Zhang Heng (78–139 C.E.) wrote of both solar and lunar eclipses in the publication of Ling Xian ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- of England briefly and was also a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and was a charter member of the Royal Society. It is for his theories on ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- Prize in Physics of 1962 Lev Landau, fuzzy logic inventor Lotfi Zadeh, and philosopher Max Black, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and world champion chess ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- designer John Ericsson and the British inventor Captain Cowper Coles. Turrets ... The development of smokeless powder by the French inventor Paul Vielle ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- and Jaques Babinet in the 1840s, with Irish inventor John Tyndall offering public displays using water-fountains ten years later. Regis J. Bates ...31 KB (4,772 words) - 00:56, 18 November 2022
- The word "diesel" is derived from the German inventor Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel who in 1892 invented the diesel engine. ...30 KB (4,446 words) - 14:28, 29 January 2024
- In 1595 the Croatian inventor Faust Vrančić designed a parachute-like device which he called Homo Volans (Flying Man). A book by John Wilkins ...30 KB (4,644 words) - 07:42, 18 November 2022
- Nobel, a Swedish chemist, industrialist, and the inventor of dynamite. Alfred Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last one written on ...34 KB (5,294 words) - 02:33, 16 November 2022
- to wine, of which the biblical Noah was the inventor. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- occurred in the work of the mathematician and inventor Heron of Alexandria in the first century C.E., when he considered the volume of an impossible frustum ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- RADAR is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or speed of both moving and fixed objects ...32 KB (4,862 words) - 22:43, 7 December 2022
- * Athena Hippeia or Athena Hippia, the inventor of the chariot * Parthénos (= virgin), the aspect of her character that was memorialized in the ...30 KB (4,535 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- North Korea, Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere. Inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov says that while hospitalized when wounded after being hit by a Nazi shell ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- American inventor Allen K. Breed then developed a key component for automotive use: The ball-in-tube sensor for crash detection. He marketed ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- The Chinese inventor Pi Sheng made movable type of earthenware circa 1045, but there are no known surviving examples of his printing. Metal movable ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- The Rorschach inkblot test, named after its inventor Hermann Rorschach, was introduced in 1921, as a way to determine a person's personality ...32 KB (4,685 words) - 14:39, 29 September 2023
- Quetzal Feathered Serpent deity was known as the inventor of books and the calendar, the giver of maize corn to humankind, and sometime as a symbol of ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) Hughes was an innovative American businessman, movie producer, aircraft inventor ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has questioned whether one can use the term in any meaningful way, since many of the technological ...39 KB (5,412 words) - 23:24, 3 May 2023
- Anthony James Leggett, and Tim Berners-Lee, co-inventor of the World Wide Web. Actors Hugh Grant, Kate Beckinsale, Dudley Moore, Michael Palin ...35 KB (5,122 words) - 13:07, 3 May 2023
- as the "Father of Geology"; John Napier inventor of logarithms; J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- master grades (dan 段). Jigoro Kano was the inventor of the kyu-dan grading system that was soon adopted by other martial arts, such as karate. Each ...35 KB (5,636 words) - 09:00, 12 May 2024
- what prompted the legend that Alfred was the inventor of shires, hundreds and tithings. Alfred's care for the administration of justice is testified ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- when the Phantom turned out to be in reality the inventor, in the 1950s, of the Nash equilibrium result in game theory, John Forbes Nash. The former Phantom ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- to be touched to produce a tone. Although its inventor (Leon Theremin) originally developed it for classical music as a way to prevent the repetitive ...34 KB (5,125 words) - 20:42, 3 November 2020
- bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer ... bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
