Search results for "Inventor" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
