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
