NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of inventors

See also: List of scientists, Timeline of invention, List of inventions named after people, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, and Category:Inventors. This page contains links to lists of scientists. ... This is a chronological list of inventions. ... This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whom it is named after). ... The Punishment of Haman, by Michaelangelo. ...

Alphabetical list

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov, (1906-1986), Russia - Camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor.
Abbas Ibn Firnas, (810-887), Andalusia — eye glasses, hang glider, watch
Robert Adler, (1913-2007), Austria/United States – wireless remote control
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, (940-1000), Persia — astronomical sextant
Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham), (965-1039), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — camera obscura, pinhole camera
Al-Fazari, (d. 796/806), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — brass astrolabe
Al-Jazari, (1136-1206), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — crankshaft, connecting rod, crank mechanism, combination lock, elephant clock, programmable humanoid robots, robotics, reciprocating piston engine, suction pump, segmental gear, valve, etc.
Al-Khwarizmi (780-850), Persia — modern algebra
Al-Razi (Rhazes), (865-965), Persia — distillation and extraction methods, sulfuric acid and alcohol, soap bar
Rostislav Alexeyev, (1916-1980) , Russia - Ekranoplan.
Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili, (9th century), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — syringe used for cataract removal
Archimedes, (c. 287-212 BC), Greece — Archimedes screw
Ami Argand, (1750-1803), France — Argand lamp
Armen Firman, (c. 852), Andalusia — parachute
Edwin H. Armstrong,(1890-1954), USA — FM radio
William George Armstrong, (1810-1900), UK — hydraulic crane
Neil Arnott, (1788-1874), UK — waterbed
Joseph Aspdin, (1788-1855), England — Portland cement
John Vincent Atanasoff, (1903-1995), United States — modern programmable computer

Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov (Russian: ) (January 13, 1906 â€“ 1992) was a Russian mountaineer and inventor. ... Spring loaded camming device in a parallel crack A spring loaded camming device (also SLCD, cam or friend) is a piece of rock climbing or mountaineering protection equipment. ... Abbas Ibn Firnas, or Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas (Unknown- 887 A.D.) was a Spanish-Arab humanitarian, technologist, and chemist. ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... A pair of modern glasses Glasses, also called eyeglasses or spectacles are frames, bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes normally for vision correction, eye protection, or for protection from UV rays. ... Hang gliding is one of the windsports. ... This article is about portable clocks. ... Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4, 1913 - February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents. ... For other uses, see Remote control (disambiguation). ... Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr Al-Khujandi was a Persian (Tajik) astronomer and mathematician who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory near in what is now Ray, Iran near Tehran. ... edit Geographical extent of Iranian influence in the 1st century BCE. The Parthian Empire (mostly Western Iranian) is shown in red, other areas, dominated by Scythia (mostly Eastern Iranian), in orange. ... Sextants for astronomical observations were used primarily for measuring the positions of stars. ... (Arabic: Ø£Ø¨Ùˆ Ø¹Ù„ÙŠ Ø§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ù„Ù‡ÙŠØ«Ù…, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 â€“ 1039), was an Arab[1] Muslim polymath[2][3] who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, visual perception, and to science in general with his introduction of the... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... The camera obscura (Lat. ... Principle of a pinhole camera. ... Abu abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari was a Persian philosopher and mathematician. ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... â€œBrazenâ€ redirects here. ... A 16th century astrolabe. ... Diagram from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari. ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... Crankshaft (red), pistons (gray) in their cylinders (blue), and flywheel (black) Continental engine marine crankshafts, 1942 Components of a typical, four stroke cycle, DOHC piston engine. ... piston (top) and connecting rod from typical automotive engine (scale is in centimetres) Components of a typical, four stroke cycle, DOHC piston engine. ... A crank is a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. ... A letter combination lock. ... The reproduction elephant clock in the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai. ... Programming redirects here. ... Hondas ASIMO, an example of a humanoid robot A humanoid robot is a robot with its overall appearance based on that of the human body. ... Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application. ... Internal combustion piston engine Components of a typical, four stroke cycle, internal combustion piston engine. ... Suction is the creation of a partial vacuum, or region of low pressure. ... This article is about a mechanical device. ... Look up segment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Gear (disambiguation). ... // These water valves are operated by handles. ... Soviet postage stamp commemorating the 1200th anniversary of Muhammad al‑Khwarizmi in 1983. ... Persia redirects here. ... This article is about the branch of mathematics. ... For other uses, see Razi. ... edit Geographical extent of Iranian influence in the 1st century BCE. The Parthian Empire (mostly Western Iranian) is shown in red, other areas, dominated by Scythia (mostly Eastern Iranian), in orange. ... Laboratory distillation set-up: 1: Heat source 2: Still pot 3: Still head 4: Thermometer/Boiling point temperature 5: Condenser 6: Cooling water in 7: Cooling water out 8: Distillate/receiving flask 9: Vacuum/gas inlet 10: Still receiver 11: Heat control 12: Stirrer speed control 13: Stirrer/heat plate... In chemistry, liquid-liquid extraction is a useful method to separate components (compounds) of a mixture. ... R-phrases S-phrases , , , Flash point Non-flammable Related Compounds Related strong acids Selenic acid Hydrochloric acid Nitric acid Related compounds Hydrogen sulfide Sulfurous acid Peroxymonosulfuric acid Sulfur trioxide Oleum Supplementary data page Structure and properties n, Îµr, etc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A collection of decorative soaps used for human hygiene purposes. ... R.E. Alexeev at work (shown during Ekranoplan TV documentary) Rostislav Evgenievich Alexeev (December 18, 1916, Novozybkov, Bryansk Oblast, Imperial Russia â€“ February 9, 1980, Nizhny Novgorod, USSR) was a designer of highspeed shipbuilding. ... An ekranoplan (Russian: , literally screen plane) is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but that operates solely on the principle of ground effect (in Russian ÑÑ„Ñ„ÐµÐºÑ‚ ÑÐºÑ€Ð°Ð½Ð° effekt ekrana - from which the name derived). ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... A syringe nowadays nearly always means a medical syringe, but it can mean any of these: A simple hand-powered piston pump consisting of a plunger that can be pulled and pushed along inside a cylindrical tube (the barrel), which has a small hole on one end, so it can... Human eye cross-sectional view, showing position of human lens. ... For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation). ... Archimedess screw (also the Archimedean screw) is one of several inventions and discoveries reputed to have been made by Archimedes. ... AimÃ© Argand (July 5, 1750-1803) was Swiss physicist and chemist. ... The Argand lamp was invented and patented in 1780 by AimÃ© Argand . ... Armen Firman was a Moor remembered for an attempt at flight in 852 AD. He wrapped himself in a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts and jumped from a tower in Córdoba, Spain, intending to use the garment as wings on which he could glide. ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... This article is about the device. ... Edwin Howard Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 - March 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (November 26, 1810 - December 27, 1900) was an English industrialist, the effective founder of the Armstrong-Siddeley manufacturing empire. ... Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Neil Arnott (b. ... A waterbed or water mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water. ... Joseph Aspdin (1788 – 20 March 1855) was an English mason, bricklayer and inventor who patented Portland cement on 21 October 1824. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Sampling fast set Portland cement Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general usage, as it is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar and plaster. ... John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 â€“ June 15, 1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. ... This article is about the machine. ...

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Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), UK — analytical engine (semi-automatic computer)
Roger Bacon, (1214-1292), England — magnifying glass
Leo Baekeland, (1863-1944), Belgian–American — Velox photographic paper and Bakelite
Ralph H. Baer, (1922-), German born American — video game console
John Logie Baird, (1888-1946), UK — an electromechanical television
Donat Banki, (1859-1922), Hungary — inventor of the carburetor
John Bardeen, (1908-1991), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
Anthony R. Barringer Canadian – American — INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient) airborne electromagnetic system
Earl W. Bascom, (1906-1995), Canada and United States — side-delivery rodeo chute, hornless rodeo saddle, rodeo bareback rigging, rodeo chaps
Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896), Germany — PVC
Trevor Baylis, (1937-), UK — a wind-up radio
Francis Beaufort, (1774-1857), France — Beaufort scale
Arnold O. Beckman, (1900-2004), USA — pH meter
Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Canada — telephone
Karl Benz, (1844-1929), Germany — the petrol-powered automobile
Emile Berliner, (1851-1929), Germany and USA — the disc record gramophone
Tim Berners-Lee, (1955-), UK — with Robert Cailliau, the World Wide Web
Bi Sheng (Chinese:畢昇), (ca.990-1051), China — clay movable type printing
Laszlo Biro, (1899-1985), Hungary — modern ballpoint pen
Clarence Birdseye, (1886-1956), USA — frozen food process
J. Stuart Blackton, (1875-1941), USA — stop-motion film
Otto Blathy (1860-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of the transformer, wattmeter, alternating current (AC) and turbogenerator
Katharine B. Blodgett, (1898-1979), UK — nonreflective glass
Nils Bohlin, (1920-2002), Sweden — the three-point seat belt
Joseph-Armand Bombardier, (1907-1964), Canada — snowmobile
Robert W. Bower, (1936-), USA — self-aligned–gate MOSFET
Seth Boyden, (1788-1870), USA — nail-making machine
Walter Houser Brattain, (1902-1987), USA — co-inventor of the transistor
Louis Braille, (1809-1852), France — the Braille writing system
Karl Ferdinand Braun, (1850-1918), Germany — cathode-ray tube oscilloscope
Harry Brearley, (1871-1948), UK — stainless steel
John Moses Browning, (1855-1926), USA — automatic handgun
Edwin Beard Budding, (1795-1846), UK — lawnmower
Corliss Orville Burandt, USA — Variable valve timing

Babbage redirects here. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The analytical engine, an important step in the history of computers, was the design of a mechanical general-purpose computer by the British professor of mathematics Charles Babbage. ... This article is about the machine. ... For the Nova Scotia premier see Roger Bacon (politician). ... Events Simon Apulia becomes Bishop of Exeter. ... For broader historical context, see 1290s and 13th century. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A magnifying glass (called a hand lens in laboratory contexts) is a convex lens which is used to produce a magnified image of an object. ... Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. ... Year 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bakelite is a material based on the thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride developed in 1907â€“1909 by Belgian-American Dr. Leo Baekeland. ... Ralph H. Baer (born March 8, 1922) is a German-born American inventor, noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Game console redirects here. ... Bust of John Logie Baird in Helensburgh. ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Donát Bánki (1859-1922) was a Hungarian mechanical engineer, inventor of (among many other things) the carburetor. ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bendix-Technico (Stromberg) 1-barrel downdraft carburetor model BXUV-3, with nomenclature A carburetor (North American spelling) / carburettor (international spelling), colloquially called a carb (in North America and the United Kingdom) or carby (chiefly in Australia), is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine. ... John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 â€“ January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ... Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier or an electrically controlled switch. ... Anthony R. â€œTonyâ€ Barringer (b. ... Earl W. Bascom (June 19, 1906 - August 28, 1995) was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... From the early 1900s up until the mid 1920s, bareback bronc riding was slowly becoming accepted as a professional rodeo event. ... Eugen Baumann (December 12, 1846–November 3, 1896) was a German chemist. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... PVC may refer to the following: Polyvinyl chloride, a plastic Premature ventricular contraction, irregular heartbeat Permanent virtual circuit, a term used in telecommunications and computer networks Param Vir Chakra, Indias highest military honor. ... Trevor G. Baylis (born May 13, 1937 in Kilburn, London, England) is a British inventor. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS (7 May 1774 â€“ 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy. ... Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure for describing wind intensity based mainly on observed sea conditions. ... Arnold Orville Beckman (born April 10, 1900 in Cullom, Illinois; died May 18, 2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934. ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see PH (disambiguation). ... Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and innovator. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Telephone (disambiguation). ... Karl Benz Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of Carl is used ocassionaly, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany â€“ April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. ... Jan. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... â€œCarâ€ and â€œCarsâ€ redirect here. ... Emile Berliner with disc record gramophone. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edison cylinder phonograph from about 1899 The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Robert Cailliau. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... PÃ¬ ShÄ“ng (Wade-Giles selling) (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ; died 1052) was the inventor of the first know movable type printing system. ... -1... For other uses, see Clay (disambiguation). ... For the weblog software, see Movable Type. ... For other uses, see Print. ... Ladislao Laszlo Josef Biro (A FAMOUS BASEBALL PLAYER FOR THE ST. LOUIS CARDNALS!!!) (BÃrÃ³ LÃ¡szlÃ³ JÃ³zsef, September 29, 1899 - November 24, 1985) is considered the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Ballpoint pen, disassembled (top) and complete (bottom) A ballpoint pen (also eponymously known in British English as a biro and pronounced bye-row in Britain but sometimes bee-row elsewhere), is a modern writing instrument. ... Birdseyes double belt freezer (US Patent #1,773,079) Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. ... James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 - August 13, 1941), usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation. ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... This is a list of stop-motion films from around the world organised in order of release date; theatrical releases as well as made-for-TV and direct-to-video movies. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Transformer (disambiguation). ... The wattmeter is an electrodynamic instrument for measuring the electric power or the supply rate of electrical energy of any given circuit. ... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... The worlds first commercial, oil-free gas turbine is manufactured by Capstone. ... // Katharine Blodgett was named the first woman to ever get her Ph. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... This article is about the material. ... Nils Ivar Bohlin (July 17, 1920 â€“ September 26, 2002) was a Swedish inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... This article is about the safety device. ... Joseph-Armand lebeau Bombardier (April 16, 1907 - February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The metalâ€“oxideâ€“semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is by far the most common field-effect transistor in both digital and analog circuits. ... Seth Boyden Seth Boyden (November 17, 1788 â€“ March 31, 1870) was an American inventor. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 â€“ October 13, 1987) was a physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley invented the transistor. ... Year 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier or an electrically controlled switch. ... Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 â€“ January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille[1], a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. ... Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Braille code where the word (, French for first) can be read. ... Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 in Fulda, Germany â€“ 20 April 1918 in New York City, USA) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... For the game, see: 1850 (board game) 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The cathode ray tube or CRT, invented by Karl Ferdinand Braun, is the display device used in most computer displays, video monitors, televisions and oscilloscopes. ... Illustration showing the interior of a cathode-ray tube for use in an oscilloscope. ... Monument to Harry Brearley at the former Brown Firth Research Laboratories Harry Brearley (February 18, 1871 â€“ August 12, 1948) was the inventor of rustless steel (later to be called stainless steel). He was born in Sheffield, England. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 630 foot (192 m) high, stainless-clad (type 304) Gateway Arch defines St. ... John Moses Browning (January 21, 1855–November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of weapons which were used in the US Military for decades in the 20th century. ... Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Springfield Armory M1911A1 single-action . ... Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846)an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England was the English inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and adjustable spanner. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A lawn mower (often spelled as one word—lawnmower) is a machine (electric or mechnical) used to cut grass to an even length. ... Inventor of variable valve timing. ... Variable valve timing, or VVT, is a generic term for an automobile piston engine technology. ...

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Robert Cailliau, 1947-), Belgium — with Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web
C`ai Lun, 蔡倫 (50 AD - 121), China — paper
Marvin Camras, (1916 - 1995), USA — magnetic recording
Chester Carlson, (1906-1968), USA — Xerography
Wallace Carothers, (1896-1937), USA — Nylon
Joseph Constantine Carpue, (1764-1846), France — rhinoplastic surgery
George Cayley, (1773-1857), (UK) — tension-spoke wheels, Caterpillar track
Lagari Hasan Çelebii, (fl. 1633-1640), Turkey — rocket aircraft
Adrian Chernoff, (1971-), USA — GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits
Evgeniy Chertanovskiy, Russia - Skafander
Niels Christensen (1865- 1952), USA — O-ring
Samuel Hunter Christie, (1784-1865), UK — Wheatstone bridge
Juan de la Cierva, (1895-1936), Spain — the autogyro
Alexandru Ciurcu, (1854-1922), Romania — Reaction engine
Georges Claude, (1870-1960), France — neon lamp
Henri Coandă, (1886-1972), Romania — Jet engine
Josephine Cochrane, (1839-1913), USA — dishwasher
Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), UK — Hovercraft
Aeneas Coffey, (1780-1852), Ireland, heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still
George Constantinescu, (1881-1965), Romania — Interrupter gear
Lloyd Groff Copeman, (1865- 1956), USA — Electric stove
Cornelis Corneliszoon, (1550-1607), The Netherlands — sawmill
Jacques Cousteau, (1910-1997), France — co-inventor of the aqualung and the Nikonos underwater camera
Holger Crafoord, (1908-1982), Sweden — inventor of the artificial kidney
Thomas Crapper, (1836-1910), England, plumber.
Bartolomeo Cristofori, (1655-1731), Italy — piano
János Csonka, (1852-1939), Hungary — co-inventor of carburetor
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, (1725-1804), France — automobile
William Cumberland Cruikshank, (1745-1800), UK — chlorinated water
William Cullen, (1710-1790), UK — first artificial refrigerator
Glenn Curtiss, (1878 - 1930), USA — ailerons

Robert Cailliau. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... Cài Lún (Wade-Giles: Tsai Lun, 蔡倫) (c. ... For other uses, see Paper (disambiguation). ... Marvin Camras (January 1, 1916 - June 23, 1995) was an important pioneer in the field of magnetic recording. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Magnetic storage is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on a magnetised medium. ... Chester Carlson he is also a homosexual Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chester F. Carlson Xerography (or Electrophotography) is a photocopying technique developed by Chester Carlson in 1938 and patented on October 6, 1942. ... Wallace Hume Carothers (April 27, 1896 â€“ April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who is credited with the invention of nylon. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses of this word, see nylon (disambiguation). ... Joseph Constantine Carpue (May 4, 1764 - January 30, 1846) was an English surgeon who was born in London. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... For the album by Primus, see Rhinoplasty (album). ... Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (December 27, 1773 â€“ December 15, 1857) was a prolific English engineer from Brompton-by-Sawdon, near Scarborough in Yorkshire. ... Year 1773 (MDCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Wire wheels, (wire spoked wheels), today are still used on many motorcycles and most bicycles. ... </nowiki> Rear sprocket of a Leclerc tank Track of a Leclerc tank U.S. M60 Patton tank. ... This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. ... Flying machine redirects here. ... Adrian Chernoff is one of Americas most prolific inventors under the age of 35 with 50 US patents, 12 International patents, and 55 patents pending. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The Hy-wire is a concept car from General Motors. ... Rubber Bandits are rubber bands with tear resistant attached labels. ... Evgeniy Chertanovskiy - Soviet (Russian) inventor. ... Skafander (from Greek words skaf - boat,ship and andros - man)is a special term that is often used in Russia to call standard diving dress or a space suit. ... Niels Christensen (1865-1952) was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Typical O-ring and application An O-ring is a loop of elastomer with a round (o-shaped) cross-section used as a mechanical seal. ... Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865) was a British scientist and mathematician. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... A Wheatstone bridge is a measuring instrument invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843. ... Juan de la Cierva (21 September 1895 â€“ 19 December 1936) was a Spanish aeronautical engineer and pilot. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... An autogyro is a type of rotorcraft invented by Juan de la Cierva in 1919, making its first successful flight on January 9, 1923 at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid, Spain. ... Alexandru Ciurcu (1854-1922) was a Romanian inventor and publisher, famous for his invention with Just Buisson of the first reaction engine. ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A reaction engine is an engine which provides propulsion by expelling reaction mass, in accordance with Newtons third law of motion. ... Inspired in part by Daniel McFarlan Moores invention, Mooreâ€™s Lamp, Paris born chemist and inventor, Georges Claude invented the neon light by passing an electric current through inert gases made them light very brightly. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lighting neon lamp, two 220/230 volt and 110 V neon lamps and a screwdriver with neon lamp inside A neon lamp is a gas discharge lamp containing primarily neon gas at low pressure. ... Henri Marie CoandÄƒ (June 7, 1886 â€“ November 25, 1972) (IPA: /ÉÊi maÊi kwandÉ™/) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and the builder of worlds first jet powered aircraft, the Coanda-1910. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Pratt and Whitney turbofan engine for the F-15 Eagle is tested at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, USA. The tunnel behind the engine muffles noise and allows exhaust to escape. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A Dishwasher A two drawer DishDrawer dishwasher. ... Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 â€“ June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... A Hovercraft, or Air-Cushion Vehicle (ACV), is an amphibious vehicle or craft, designed to travel over any sufficiently smooth surface - land or water - supported by a cushion of slowly moving, low-pressure air, ejected downwards against the surface close below it. ... Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852) was born in Calais, France where he spent his early years. ... 1780 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A column still also called a continuous still, patent still, or coffey still is a variety of still that consists of two columns. ... George (Gogu) Constantinescu (1881 - 1965) was a Romanian scientist, engineer and inventor - during his career he registered over 130 inventions. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Damaged propeller from a Sopwith Baby aircraft circa 1916/17 with evidence of bulletholes from a machine gun fired behind the propeller without an Interruptor. ... Lloyd Groff Copeman (29 December 1881-5 July 1956)[1] was a prolific and successful American inventor who was responsible for devising the first electric stove, an early form of the microwave oven and the flexible rubber ice cube tray, among other products. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stove is a heat-producing device. ... Cornelis Corneliszoon (Born 1550 in Uitgeest, The Netherlands - died ca. ... Events February 7 - Julius III becomes Pope. ... Year 1607 (MDCVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy - Queen Beatrix - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War - Declared July 26, 1581 - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... For the 1922 film starring Oliver Hardy, see The Sawmill. ... Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1976. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... ... The Nikonos System Nikonos was the name given to a series of 35mm film cameras specifically designed for use underwater. ... Holger Crafoord (1908-1982), was a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of the artificial kidney. ... Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Artificial kidney is often a synonym for hemodialysis, but may also, more generally, refer to renal replacement therapies (with exclusion of renal transplantation) that are in use and/or in development. ... Thomas Crapper (baptized September 28, 1836; d. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Joe Kessler is a plumber! A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, drainage, venting, heating and air-conditioning, or industrial process plant piping. ... Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (May 4, 1655 - January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments, generally regarded as the inventor of the piano. ... Events March 25 - Saturns largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. ... Events 10 Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdoms Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... JÃ¡nos Csonka (Szeged, 1852-Budapest, 1939) was the co-inventor of the carburetor with DonÃ¡t BÃ¡nki, patented on February 13, 1893. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bendix-Technico (Stromberg) 1-barrel downdraft carburetor model BXUV-3, with nomenclature A carburetor (North American spelling) / carburettor (international spelling), colloquially called a carb (in North America and the United Kingdom) or carby (chiefly in Australia), is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine. ... Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (26 February 1725 â€“ 2 October 1804) was a French inventor who is claimed by the French government to have built the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... â€œCarâ€ and â€œCarsâ€ redirect here. ... William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745, Edinburgh â€” June 27, 1800) was a British chemist and anatomist, an author of the The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body. He used chlorine to purify water, in 1797 first reported the property of some urines to coagulate when heated and identified carbon... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 â€“ Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... Chlorination is the process of adding the element chlorine to water as a method of water purification to make it fit for human consumption as drinking water. ... William Cullen (April 15, 1710 â€“ February 5, 1790) was a Scottish physician and chemist. ... // Events April 10 - The worlds first copyright legislation became effective, Britains Statute of Anne Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) Births January 3 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (d. ... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Fridge redirects here. ... Glenn H. Curtiss at the Grande Semaine dAviation in France in 1909 Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 â€“ July 23, 1930) was an aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aileron location on a Piper PA-28. ...

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Gustaf Dalén, (1869-1937), Sweden — AGA cooker; Dalén light; Agamassan
Salvino D'Armate, (?-?), Italy — credited for inventing eyeglasses in 1284
Charles Brace Darrow, (1889-1967). USA — Monopoly
Jacob Davis, (1868-1908), USA — riveted jeans
Edmund Davy, (1785-1857), Ireland — acetylene
Humphry Davy, (1778-1829), UK — Davy miners lamp
Joseph Day, (1855-1946), UK — the crankcase compression two stroke engine
Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), USA — triode
Miksa Deri (1854-1938), Hungary — co-inventor of transformer
James Dewar, (1842-1923), UK — Thermos flask
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, (1860-1935), UK — motion picture camera
Rudolf Diesel, (1858-1913), Germany — Diesel engine
William H. Dobelle, (1943-2004), United States — first functioning artificial eye
Bryan Donkin, (1768-1855), UK — print industry composition roller
Hub van Doorne, (1900-1979), Netherlands, Variomatic continuously variable transmission
Anastase Dragomir, (1896-1966), Romania — Ejection seat
Karl Drais, (1785-1851), Germany — dandy horse (Draisine)
Cornelius Drebbel, (1572-1633), The Netherlands — first navigable submarine
Richard Drew, (1899-1980), USA — Masking tape
John Boyd Dunlop, (1840-1921) UK — first practical pneumatic tyre

Nils Gustaf DalÃ©n (November 30, 1869 â€“ December 9, 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of AGA, the company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the DalÃ©n light. ... Photograph of a modern 3 oven AGA cooker The AGA cooker is a stored-heat oven invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Dr. Gustaf DalÃ©n (1869 - 1937), who also founded the AGA company. ... The DalÃ©n light was the predominant form of light source in lighthouses from the 1900s through to the 1960s by which time electric lighting had come to dominate. ... Agamassan (aga) is a substrate used to safely absorb acetylene and thus allow the transport, storage and commercial explotation of an otherwise unstable gas. ... Salvino DArmati (or son of Armato) of Florence is credited with inventing eyeglasses sometime in the thirteenth century, perhaps around 1284. ... Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. ... // Events War and politics King Charles II of Naples is captured in a naval battle off Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon. ... Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889â€“August 29, 1967), has been credited, erroneously, as having invented the poopMonopoly. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the economic term. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Year 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany Early use of trousers in France: a sans-culotte by Louis-LÃ©opold Boilly. ... Edmund Davy (1785 - 5 Nov 1857) was a professor of Chemistry at the Royal Cork Institution from 1813 and professor of chemistry at the Royal Dublin Society from 1826. ... 1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is a hydrocarbon belonging to the group of alkynes. ... Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 December 1778 â€“ 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. ... Year 1778 (MDCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Davy lamp The Davy lamp is a candle containing safety lamp devised in 1815 by Humphry Davy. ... Joseph Day (born 1855 in London, died 1946) trained as an engineer at the School of Practical Engineering at Crystal Palace in London, began work at Stothert & Pitt in Bath, and in 1889 designed the two-stroke engine as it is widely-known today (in contrast to the two-stroke... Lee De Forest Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 - June 30, 1961), was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his name. ... Simplified diagram of a triode. ... Miksa Déri (1854 - 1938), was a Hungarian electrical engineer, co-inventor of the transformer and the ZBD model AC electrical generator. ... For other uses, see Transformer (disambiguation). ... For other persons named James Dewar, see James Dewar (disambiguation). ... Lunchbox and vacuum bottle owned by Harry S. Truman A vacuum flask or Thermos flask is a bottle that reduces heat transfer from the inside to the outside and conversely to a minimum, and therefore keeps warm drinks warm and refrigerated drinks cold. ... William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (August 3, 1860 - September 28, 1935) was a Scottish inventor who is credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison. ... This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. ... A diesel engine built by MAN AG in 1906 Rudolf Diesels 1893 patent on his engine design A Diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle. ... William H. Dobelle (October 24, 1941 - October 5, 2004) was a biomedical researcher who developed rudimentary technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients. ... Bryan Donkin (March 22, 1768 - February 27, 1855) was a British engineer and industrialist. ... Variomatic Variomatic is the stepless, fully automatic transmission of the Dutch car manufacturer DAF, using a drive belt and two pulleys. ... The continuously variable transmission (CVT) is a transmission in which the ratio of the rotational speeds of two shafts, as the input shaft and output shaft of a vehicle or other machine, can be varied continuously within a given range, providing an infinite number of possible ratios. ... Anastase Dragomir (1896-1966) was a distinguished Romanian inventor, most famous for his patent of the parachuted cell, a dischargeable chair from an aircraft or other vehicle, designed for emergency escapes. ... US Air Force F-15 Eagle ejection seat test using a mannequin. ... Karl Drais ca 1820, then still a baron Karl Drais (April 29, 1785 â€“ December 10, 1851) was a German inventor and invented the Laufmaschine (running machine), also later called the velocipede, draisine (English) or draisienne (French), or nick-named, dandy horse. ... dandy horse is the inspiration for the bicycle. ... A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle or trolley. ... Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel (Alkmaar, 1572 - London, November 7, 1633) was the Dutch inventor of the first navigable submarine in 1620. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy - Queen Beatrix - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War - Declared July 26, 1581 - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... Richard G. Drew (1899-1980) was an American inventor who worked for 3M in St. ... Masking tape Masking tape is a type of adhesive tape made of easy-to-tear paper backed with a weak adhesive. ... For other persons named John Dunlop, see John Dunlop (disambiguation). ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ...

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George Eastman, (1854-1932), USA — film-roll
Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc.
Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), The Netherlands — the electrocardiogram
Rune Elmqvist, (1857-1924), Sweden — implantable pacemaker
Douglas Engelbart, (1925-), USA — the computer mouse [1]
John Ericsson, (1803-1889), Sweden — the two screw-propeller
Lars Magnus Ericsson, (1846-1926), Sweden — the handheld micro telephone
Ole Evinrude, (1877-1934), Norway — outboard motor

A 1954 U.S. stamp featuring George Eastman. ... â€œEdisonâ€ redirects here. ... Tonearm redirects here. ... Light bulb redirects here. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... Below is a list of Edison patents. ... Willem Einthoven Willem Einthoven (May 21, 1860 â€“ September 29, 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy - Queen Beatrix - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War - Declared July 26, 1581 - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... â€œQRSâ€ redirects here. ... Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996), a Swedish inventor, developed the first implantable pacemaker in 1958, working under the direction of Ã…ke Senning, senior physician and cardiac surgeon at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden. ... Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of German descent. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... John Ericsson (1803-1889) This article is about John Ericsson, the Swedish and American inventor. ... Lars Magnus Ericsson (May 5, 1846 - December 17, 1926) was a Swedish inventor and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson). ... Ole Evinrude (1877 - 1934) was a U.S. inventor. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bolinders two cylinder Trim outboard engine. ...

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Samuel Face, (1923-2001), USA — concrete flatness/levelness technology; Lightning Switch
Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), England — electric transformer
Johann Maria Farina, (1685–1766), Germany; Eau de Cologne
Philo Farnsworth, (1906-1971), USA — electronic television
James Fergason, (1934-), USA — improved liquid crystal display
Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954), Italy — nuclear reactor
Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), Canada — two-way radio
Adolf Eugen Fick, (1829-1901), Germany — contact lens
Artur Fischer, (1919–) Germany — fasteners including fischertechnik.
Gerhard Fischer, Germany/USA — hand-held metal detector
Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), Scotland — penicillin
John Ambrose Fleming, (1848-1945), England — vacuum diode
Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), Canada — Universal Standard Time
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819-1868), France — Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current
Benoît Fourneyron, (1802-1867), France — water turbine
John Fowler, (1826-1864), England — steam-driven ploughing engine
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790), USA — the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788-1827), France — Fresnel lens
William Friese-Greene, (1855-1921), England — cinematography
Buckminster Fuller, (1895-1983), USA — geodesic dome

Sam Face at MIT, circa 1945 Samuel Allen Face, Jr. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Lightning Switch is a wireless and batteryless remote control switch technology manufactured by PulseSwitch Systems, a member of The Face Companies group of Norfolk, Virginia USA. The Lightning Switch transmitter requires no outside source of electricity. ... Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 â€“ August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Transformer (disambiguation). ... Johann Maria Farina Johann Maria Farina (1685 - 1766) - also known as Giovanni Maria Farina - was the Cologne perfume maker primarily responsible for establishing Eau-de-Cologne as a brand. ... Original Eau de Cologne Bottle of Original Eau de Cologne Bottle of Eau de Cologne Trojnoj Eau de Cologne (French for water of Cologne, KÃ¶lnisch Wasser in German) is a type of light perfume that originated in Cologne, Germany and is defined by its typical concentration of about 2... Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 â€“ March 11, 1971) was an American inventor. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the engineering discipline. ... James Fergason (born Wakenda, Missouri, January 12, 1934) is the inventor of an improved Liquid Crystal Display, or LCD. After obtaining a Bachelors Degree in physics from the University of Missouri in 1956, Fergason began his work on the practical uses of liquid crystals at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... LCD redirects here. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 â€“ November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ... Reginald Fessenden (October 6, 1866 â€“ July 22, 1932) was a Canadian inventor, best known for his work in early radio. ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Portrait of Fick Adolf Eugen Fick (born 3 September, 1829, in Kassel, Germany; died 21 August, 1901, in Blankenberge, Flanders) was a German physiologist usually credited with the invention of contact lenses. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A pair of contact lenses, positioned with the concave side facing upward. ... Artur Fischer (born on 31. ... fischertechnikÂ® (the lowercase is deliberately used in the trademarked name) is a brand of construction toy. ... Gerhard Fisher contributed to the development and popularity of the hand held metal detector. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Inductive sensor. ... Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 â€“ 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the country. ... For the Japanese rock band, see Penicillin (band). ... Sir John Ambrose Fleming (November 29, 1849 - April 18, 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. ... Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Structure of a vacuum tube diode Structure of a vacuum tube triode In electronics, a vacuum tube, electron tube, or (outside North America) thermionic valve or just valve, is a device used to amplify, switch or modify a signal by controlling the movement of electrons in an evacuated space. ... Sir Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 â€“ July 22, 1915) was a prolific Canadian engineer and inventor, known for the introduction of Universal Standard Time, Canadas first postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific... Year 1827 (MDCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. ... J. B. LÃ©on Foucault Jean Bernard LÃ©on Foucault (18 September 1819â€“11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earths rotation. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Foucaults Pendulum in the PanthÃ©on, Paris. ... A gyroscope For other uses, see Gyroscope (disambiguation). ... As the circular plate moves down through a small region of constant magnetic field directed into the page, eddy currents are induced in the plate. ... BenoÃ®t Fourneyron (October 31, 1802 â€“ July 31, 1867) was a French engineer, born in Saint-Ã‰tienne. ... Year 1802 (MDCCCII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Kaplan turbine and electrical generator cut-away view. ... John Fowler (11 July 1826 â€“ 4 December 1864) was an English agricultural engineer who was a pioneer in the use of steam engines for ploughing and digging drainage channels. ... The oldest surviving photograph, NicÃ©phore NiÃ©pce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 â€“ April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... Events March 27 - Concluding that Emperor Iyasus I of Ethiopia had abdicated by retiring to a monastery, a council of high officials appoint Tekle Haymanot I Emperor of Ethiopia May 23 - Battle of Ramillies September 7 - The Battle of Turin in the War of Spanish Succession - forces of Austria and... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... An example of a standard, pointed-tip air terminal The term lightning rod is also used as a metaphorical term to describe those who attract controversy. ... Bifocals are eyeglasses whose corrective lenses each contain regions with two distinct optical powers. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... An Armonica. ... Augustin Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [] in AmE (or fray-NELL), [] in French) (May 10, 1788 â€“ July 14, 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1827 (MDCCCXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Not to be confused with Fresnel lantern. ... William Friese-Greene (September 7, 1855â€“May 5, 1921) (born William Edward Green) was a portrait photographer and prolific inventor. ... Year 1855 (MDCCCLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... â€¹ The template below is being considered for deletion. ... Richard Buckminster â€œBuckyâ€ Fuller (July 12, 1895 â€“ July 1, 1983)[1] was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Spaceship Earth in Epcot Center at Walt Disney World is perhaps one of the most famous examples of a large scale geodesic sphere. ...

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Dennis Gabor, (1900-1979), Hungary — holography
Boris Borisovich Galitzine, (1862-1916), Russia - Electromagnetic seismograph.
Elmer R. Gates, (1859-1923), foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms, magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")
Bill Gates, (1955-), Windows operating system, chief architect of Visual Basic
Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882-1945), Germany — Geiger counter
Henri Giffard, (1825-1882), France — powered airship, injector
Heinrich Göbel, (1818-1893), Germany — first functional incandescent lamp
Robert Goddard, (1882-1945), USA — liquid fuel rocket
Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906-1977), Hungary — vinyl record (LP), CBS color television
Charles Goodyear, (1800-1860), USA — vulcanization of rubber
Gordon Gould, (1920-2005), USA — co-inventor of laser
Richard Hall Gower, (1768-1833), England — ship's hull and rigging
Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA — Liquid Paper
James Henry Greathead, (1844-1896), South Africa — tunnel boring machine, tunnelling shield technique
Chester Greenwood, (1858-1937), USA — thermal earmuffs
James Gregory, (1638-1675), Scotland — reflecting telescope
William Robert Grove, (1811-1896), Wales — fuel cell
Otto von Guericke, (1602-1686), Germany — vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter,
Johann Gutenberg, (c. 1390s-1468), Germany — modern movable type printing press
Samuel Guthrie, (1782 - 1848), USA — discovered chloroform

Dennis Gabor (GÃ¡bor DÃ©nes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest â€“ February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ... This article is about the photographic technique. ... Prince Boris Borisovich Galitzine (b. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field which exerts a force on particles that possess the property of electric charge, and is in turn affected by the presence and motion of those particles. ... Seismographs (in Greek seismos = earthquake and graphein = write) are used by seismologists to record seismic waves. ... Elmer R. Gates (1859-1923), American scientist and inventor; born near Dayton, Ohio, died in Washington, D.C. Gatesâ€™s inventions include the foam fire extinguisher, an improved electric iron, an aseptic brewing and fermenting process, electric loom mechanisms, diamagnetic and magnetic separators for extracting gold from sand, an incandescent... Bill Gates William Henry Gates III, KBE, (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is the co-founder and current Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. ... This article is about the Visual Basic language shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio 6. ... Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 - September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Henri Giffard (1825-1882) was a French engineer who invented the injector and the powered airship with a steam engine weighing over 400 lbs. ... USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ... An injector is a pump-like device without rotating parts or a pump piston, which charges or discharges containers under pressure with suitable arrangements. ... Heinrich GÃ¶bel, or later: Henry Goebel (April 20, 1818 - December 4, 1893), born in Germany, was a precision mechanic and inventor, an early pioneer who did much work on developing the light bulb. ... Robert Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 â€“ August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry. ... Peter Carl Goldmark (December 2, 1906 â€“ December 7, 1977) was a Hungarian-born, American engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the long-playing (LP) microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl phonograph discs which defined home audio for two generations. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... For other persons named Charles Goodyear, see Charles Goodyear (disambiguation). ... Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving high heat and the addition of sulfur. ... The first page of Gordon Goulds famous notebook, in which he coined the acronym LASER and described the essential elements for constructing one. ... For other uses, see Laser (disambiguation). ... Captain Richard Hall Gower (1768 â€” 1833) was a British mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Transit was the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower. ... Bette Nesmith Graham (23 March 1924 - 12 May 1980) was a typist, commercial artist, and inventor who invented Liquid Paper. ... Liquid Paper, a brand name of whiteout, white-out, or opaque correction fluid, is used to cover up mistakes on paper without retyping the entire sheet. ... James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 - 21 October 1896) was an engineer renowned for his work on the underground railway networks of London. ... A tunnel boring machine that was used at Yucca Mountain. ... A tunnelling shield is a protective structure used in the excavation of tunnels through soil that is too soft or fluid to remain stable during the time it takes to line the tunnel with a support structure of concrete or steel. ... Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) of Farmington, Maine is the inventor of the earmuff. ... A pair of Husqvarna earmuffs ear defenders and visor on a safety helmet Earmuffs are objects designed to cover a persons ears for protection. ... James Gregory For other people with the same name, see James Gregory. ... This article is about the country. ... 24 inch convertible Newtonian/Cassegrain reflecting telescope on display at the Franklin Institute. ... Sir William Robert Grove (1811 â€“ 1896) was a British chemist born in Swansea in Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... A fuel cell is an electrochemical device similar to a battery, but differing from the latter in that it is designed for continuous replenishment of the reactants consumed; i. ... Otto von Guericke Otto von Guericke (originally spelled Gericke) [] (November 20, 1602 â€“ May 11, 1686 (Julian calendar); November 30, 1602 â€“ May 21, 1686 (Gregorian calendar)) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. ... The Roots blower is one example of a vacuum pump A vacuum pump is a pump that removes gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum. ... A manometer is a pressure measuring instrument, often also called pressure gauge. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ... Samuel Guthrie may refer to: Samuel Guthrie - British Columbia CCF MLA Samuel Guthrie - U.S. physician who discovered chloroform This is a disambiguation pageâ€”a list of articles associated with the same title. ... R-phrases , , , S-phrases , Flash point Non-flammable U.S. Permissible exposure limit (PEL) 50 ppm (240 mg/m3) (OSHA) Supplementary data page Structure and properties n, Îµr, etc. ...

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John Hadley, (1682-1744), England — Octant
Tracy Hall, (1919- ), USA — synthetic diamond
Christopher Hansteen, (1783-1873), Norway — discovery of terrestrial magnetism
James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), England — spinning jenny
John Harrison, (1693-1776), England — marine chronometer
Victor Hasselblad, (1906-1978), Sweden — invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
Robert A. Heinlein, (1907-1988), USA — waterbed
Henry J. Heinz, USA — tomato ketchup
Jozef Karol Hell, (1713-1789), Slovakia — the water pillar
Rudolf Hell, (1901-2002), Germany — the Hellschreiber
Joseph Henry, (1797-1878), Scotland/USA — electromagnetic relay
Heron, (c. 10-70), Roman Egypt — aeolipile
Heinrich Hertz, (1857-1894), Germany — radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), Hungary — radioactive tracer
Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), UK — postage stamp
Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), (1868-1949), Germany — Aspirin
Herman Hollerith, (1860-1929), USA — mechanical tabulator based on punched cards
Nick Holonyak, (1928- ), USA — LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Joseph Hon – book index thumb notch system for dictionaries Patent #561888
Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), England — balance wheel, iris diaphragm
Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system
Frank Hornby, (1863-1936), England — invented Meccano
Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801-1887), Netherlands — cocoa powder, cacao butter, chocolate milk
Elias Howe, (1819-1867), USA — sewing machine
Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695), Netherlands — pendulum clock
John Wesley Hyatt, (1837-1920), USA — celluloid manufacturing

External link Biography from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland Categories: Astronomers stubs | 1682 births | 1744 deaths | British astronomers | British inventors ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Octant Octant is a measuring instrument similar to a sextant. ... Tracy Hall (1919-) is an American physical chemist who first synthesized diamond using a press of his own design. ... A collection of colorless cultured diamonds grown by Apollo Diamond, Inc. ... Christopher Hansteen Christopher Hansteen (September 26, 1784 _ April 11, 1873) was a Norwegian astronomer and physicist. ... Earths magnetic field (the surface magnetic field) is approximately a magnetic dipole, with one pole near the geographic north pole and the other near the geographic south pole. ... James Hargreaves (1720 â€“ 22 April 1778) was a weaver, carpenter and an inventor in Lancashire, England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For the magazine of the same name, see Spinning Jenny (magazine). ... John Harrison John Harrison (March 24, 1693â€“March 24, 1776) was an English clockmaker, who designed and built the worlds first successful chronometer (maritime clock), one whose accuracy was great enough to allow the determination of longitude over long distances. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A marine chronometer is a timekeeper precise enough to be used as a portable time standard, used to determine longitude by means of celestial navigation. ... Victor Hasselblad (March 8, 1906 - August 5, 1978) was a Swedish inventor and photographer. ... This article is about SLR cameras in general. ... Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 â€“ May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... A waterbed or water mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water. ... H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as just Heinz, famous for its 57 Varieties slogan, was founded in 1869 by Henry John Heinz in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. ... This article is about the condiment; for the singers, see Las Ketchup. ... Jozef Karol Hell (German: Joseph Karl Hell) (1713-1789) â€“ was a Slovak mining engineer and inventor who, in 1755, invented the water-pillar, the worlds first water pump machine. ... Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 â€“ March 11, 2002) was a German inventor. ... The Hellschreiber or Feldhellschreiber was a facsimile-based teleprinter invented by Rudolf Hell. ... Joseph Henry Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 â€“ May 13, 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ... This article is about the country. ... Automotive style miniature relay A relay is an electrical switch that opens and closes under the control of another electrical circuit. ... Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (Greek: Î‰ÏÏ‰Î½ Î¿ Î‘Î»ÎµÎ¾Î±Î½Î´ÏÎµÏÏ‚) (c. ... The Roman Empire 120, with Aegyptus province highlighted See Egypt Province for the province of the Ottoman Empire. ... An illustration of Herons aeolipile An aeolipile is a device consisting of an air-tight chamber (usually a sphere or cylinder) with bent or curved pipes projecting from it, through which steam is expelled perpendicular to the radius of rotation. ... Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. ... Wireless telegraphy is the practice of remote writing (see telegraphy) without the wires normally involved in an electrical telegraph. ... Electromagnetic waves can be imagined as a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields. ... George Charles de Hevesy (born as Hevesy GyÃ¶rgy, also known as Georg Karl von Hevesy) (August 1, 1885 in Budapest â€“ July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian chemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e. ... A radioactive tracer is a substance containing a radioactive isotope (radioisotope). ... Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS (December 3, 1795 - August 27, 1879) was a British teacher and social reformer. ... A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ... Felix Hoffman (January 21, 1868 â€“ February 8, 1946) was a German chemist. ... This article is about the drug. ... Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 â€“ November 17, 1929) was an German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. ... tabulating machine constructed by Hollerith The tabulating machine was a machine designed to assist in tabulations. ... The punch card (or Hollerith card) is a recording medium for holding information for use by automated data processing machines. ... Nick Holonyak Jr. ... External links LEd Category: TeX ... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ... Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 â€“ March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Balance wheel in a cheap 1950s alarm clock, the Apollo, by Lux Mfg. ... A 35mm lens set to f/8; the diameter of the heptagonal diaphragm opening is 4. ... Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover invented a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at Bell Laboratories. ... Frank Hornby (15 May 1863 — 21 September 1936) invented Meccano around 1901, established Hornby Model Railways in 1920 and launched Dinky Toys in early 1934. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Meccano is a model construction kit comprising re-usable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces. ... Coenraad Johannes van Houten was a Dutch chocolate maker. ... Cocoa powder, also known as cocoa solids, is the nonfat component of chocolate after the fat, known as cocoa butter, has been separated. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Chocolate milk (disambiguation). ... Media:Example. ... Sewing machines can make a great variety of plain or patterned stitches. ... Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English (IPA): ; in Dutch: ) (April 14, 1629 â€“ July 8, 1698), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. ... A pendulum clock uses a pendulum as its time base. ... John Wesley Hyatt (November 28, 1837 â€“ 1920) was a U.S. inventor. ... Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents, generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic. ...

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Ibn Samh, (1000s), Andalusia — mechanical astrolabe
Ibn Yunus, (950-1009), Egypt — pendulum
Sumio Iijima, (1939- ), Japan — nanotubes
János Irinyi, (1817-1895), Hungary — noiseless match

Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. ... A 16th century astrolabe. ... Ibn Yunus (Arabic: Ø§Ø¨Ù† ÙŠÙˆÙ†Ø³) (full name, Abu al-Hasan Ali abi Said Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi al-Misri) (c. ... For other uses, see Pendulum (disambiguation). ... Sumio Iijima (é£¯å³¶ æ¾„ç”· Iijima Sumio, born May 2, 1939) is a Japanese physicist, best known for discovering carbon nanotubes in the soot of an arc discharge reactor in 1991. ... An electronic device known as a diode can be formed by joining two nanoscale carbon tubes with different electronic properties. ... External links JÃ¡nos Irinyi ... For other uses, see Match (disambiguation). ...

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Karl Jatho, (1873-1933), Germany — aeroplane
György Jendrassik, (1898-1954), Hungary — turboprop
Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), USA — swivel chair
Steve Jobs, (1955-), Macintosh operating system
Carl Edvard Johansson, (1864-1943), Sweden — Gauge blocks
Johan Petter Johansson, (1853-1943), Sweden — the pipe wrench and the modern adjustable spanner
Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)
Scott A. Jones, (1960-), USA — created one of the most successful versions of voicemail as well as ChaCha Search, a human-assisted internet search engine.
Whitcomb Judson, (1836-1909), USA — zipper

Karl Jatho (February 3, 1873 - December 8, 1933) was a German pioneer and inventor, performer and public servant of the city of Hanover. ... Airplane and Aeroplane redirect here. ... GyÃ¶rgy Jendrassik (1898-1954) was born in Budapest, Hungary. ... A schematic diagram showing the operation of a turboprop engine. ... Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.â€“4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801â€“09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ... The following is a partial list of chair types, with internal or external cross references about most of the chairs. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ... CE Johansson 1932 on receiving the degree of Honory Doctor of Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA. Carl Edvard, his wife Margareta and their four children, from left; Elsa, Signe, Edvard and Gertrud. ... Gauge blocks, (also known as gage blocks, Johansson gauges, or slip gauges) are precision ground and lapped measuring standards. ... Johan Petter Johansson (December 12, 1853â€“August 25, 1943), sometimes known as JP, was a Swedish inventor and industrialist. ... new pipe wrench 1869 patent drawing The pipe wrench, or StillsonÂ® wrench is an adjustable wrench used for turning soft iron pipes and fittings with a rounded surface. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Nancy Johnson was an American woman who invented the hand-cranked ice cream maker in 1843. ... Year 1843 (MDCCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Scott A. Jones (born in 1960) is an American inventor, entrepreneur and pioneer. ... Voicemail (or voice mail, vmail or VMS, sometimes called messagebank) is a centralized system of managing telephone messages for a large group of people. ... ChaCha is a social search engine that pays human guides to answer questions for users. ... A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. ... Whitcomb Judson (1836-1909) was an American inventor, born in Chicago, IL. During his lifetime, he obtained patents for the zipper (which he called the clasp-locker), motor improvements, railroad brakes improvements, and a number of automobile improvements, and one of them made his son a millionaire. ... Zipper slider brings together the two sides A zipper (British English: zip fastener or zip) is a popular device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric. ...

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Dean Kamen, (1951-), USA — Invented the Segway HT scooter and the IBOT Mobility Device
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853-1926), Netherlands — liquify helium
John Harvey Kellogg, (1852-1943), cornflake breakfasts
John George Kemeny, (1926-1992), Hungary — co-inventor of BASIC
Charles F. Kettering, (1876-1958), USA — invented automobile self-starter ignition, Freon ethyl gasoline and more
Jack Kilby, (1923-2005), USA — patented the first integrated circuit
Fritz Klatte, (1880-1934), Germany — vinyl chloride, forerunner to polyvinyl chloride
Margaret E. Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags
Ivan Knunyants, (1906-1990), Ukraine — invented Nylon-6
Robert Koch, (1843-1910), method for culturing bacteria on solid media
Willem Johan Kolff, (1911-), Netherlands — artificial kidney hemodialysis machine
Gleb Kotelnikov, (1872-1944), Russia — knapsack parachute
Ivan Kulibin, (1735-1818), Russia - Elevator using screw mechanisms.
Stephanie Kwolek, (1923-), USA — Kevlar
John Howard Kyan (1774-1850), Ireland — The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation

Dean Kamen on one of his inventions, the Segway PT. President Clinton and Kamen in the White House, Kamen riding his innovative invention, the iBOT Mobility System. ... Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the p Series Segway HT at the U.S. Department of Commerce on February 14, 2002. ... President Clinton and Dean Kamen in the White House The iBOT is a variety of powered wheelchair, developed by Dean Kamen in a partnership between DEKA and Johnson and Johnsons Independence Technology division. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 â€“ February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... For other uses, see Helium (disambiguation). ... John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 â€“ December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise. ... Corn flakes are a food made by combining cooked maize (called corn in North America) along with sugar and vitamins. ... John George Kemeny (KemÃ©ny JÃ¡nos) (May 31, 1926â€“December 26, 1992), U.S. computer scientist and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas Eugene Kurtz. ... This article is about the programming language. ... Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 _ November 25, 1958), a. ... Freon is a trade name for a group of chlorofluorocarbons used primarily as a refrigerant. ... Tetra-ethyl lead (also known as TEL, lead tetraethyl and tetraethyllead) is a toxic organometallic chemical compound, with formula (CH2CH3)4Pb, which was once used as a gasoline (petrol) additive. ... Jack St. ... Integrated circuit of Atmel Diopsis 740 System on Chip showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery Microchips with a transparent window, showing the integrated circuit inside. ... Fritz Klatte (1880-1934) was the discoverer of polyvinyl acetate, with German patent (GP 281687 1912) for its preparation from acetylene gas. ... Polyvinyl chloride Polyvinyl chloride, (IUPAC Polychloroethene) commonly abbreviated PVC, is a widely used thermoplastic polymer. ... Margaret Ethridge Knight (February 14, 1838 â€“ October 12, 1914) was an American inventor. ... photo Ivan Lyudvigovich Knunyants (Russian: ; 4 June (O.S. 22 May) 1906 (Shusha, currently Nagorno-Karabakh) - December 21, 1990 (Moscow), was a Soviet chemist. ... For other uses of this word, see nylon (disambiguation). ... For the American lobbyist, see Bobby Koch. ... Dr. Willem Johan (Pim) Kolff (born 14 February 1911, Leiden, the Netherlands) is the inventor of the hemodialysis as well as pioneer in the field of other artificial organs. ... It has been suggested that Artificial kidney be merged into this article or section. ... Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov (Котельников, Глеб Евгеньевич in Russian)(1. ... This article is on the type of backpack; for information on the musical band, see Knapsack (band). ... This article is about the device. ... Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (April 21, 1735 - August 11, 1818) was a Russian mechanic and inventor. ... For other uses, see Elevator (disambiguation). ... Stephanie Kwolek (born July 31, 1923) is a Polish-American chemist who discovered poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide, better known as Kevlar. ... Kevlars molecular structure; BOLD: monomer unit; DASHED: hydrogen bonds. ... KYAN, JOHN HOWARD (1774-1850), Inventor of the kyanising process for preserving wood, son of John Howard Kyan of Mount Howard and Ballymurtagh, co. ...

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René Laënnec, (1781-1826), France — stethoscope
Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), Austria and USA — Spread spectrum radio
Georges Lakhovsky, (1869-1942), Russia - Multiple Wave Oscillator.
Edwin H. Land, (1909-1991), USA — Polaroid polarizing filters and the Land Camera
Samuel P. Langley, (1834-1906), USA — bolometer
Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), USA — gas filled incandescent light bulb, hydrogen welding
Lewis Latimer, (1848-1928), — worked with Thomas Edison and patented an improved lightbulb manufacturing process
Gustav de Laval, (1845-1913), Sweden — invented the milk separator and the milking machine
John Bennet Lawes, (1814-1900), England — superphosphate or chemical fertilizer
Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev, (1874-1934), Russia — synthetic rubber
Tim Berners-Lee, (1955- ) England — World Wide Web
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, (1632-1723), Netherlands — development of the microscope
Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir, (1822-1900), Belgium — internal combustion engine, motorboat
Willard Frank Libby, (1908-1980), USA — Radiocarbon dating
Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873), Germany — nitrogen-based fertilizer
Otto Lilienthal, (1848-1896), Germany — air glider
Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, (1862-1931), Sweden — Kerosene stove operated by compressed air
Hans Lippershey, (1570-1619), Netherlands — telescope
Alexander Lodygin, (1847-1923), Russia - Electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament.
Oleg Losev, (1903-1942), Russia - Light-emitting diode.
Archibald Low, (1882-1956), Britain — Pioneer of radio guidance systems
Auguste and Louis Lumière, France — Cinématographe
Giovanni Luppis, (1813-1875), Austrian Empire (ethnical Italian) — self-propelled torpedo

RenÃ©-ThÃ©ophile-Hyacinthe LaÃ«nnec (February 17, 1781- August 13, 1826), French physician; inventor of the stethoscope. ... Look up stethoscope in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 â€“ January 19, 2000) was an Austrian/Jewish-American actress and communications technology innovator. ... Spread-spectrum telecommunications is a technique in which a signal is transmitted in a bandwidth considerably greater than the frequency content of the original information. ... Georges Lakhovsky (born 1869 in Russia, died 1942 in New York City, USA) was a Russian scientist, author and inventor. ... Edwin Herbert Land Edwin Herbert Land (May 12, 1909 â€“ March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. ... Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. ... The Land camera was the first instant camera. It was invented by Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid. ... Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 in Roxbury, Massachusetts near Boston, – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aeronautics pioneer and aircraft engineer. ... Rendition of an imaging bolometer from Los Alamos National Laboratory A bolometer is a device for measuring incident electromagnetic radiation. ... Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. ... Light bulb redirects here. ... Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 - December 11, 1928) was an African American inventor. ... â€œEdisonâ€ redirects here. ... Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (May 9, 1845 - February 2, 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery. ... Caricature from Vanity Fair, 8 July 1882 Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet FRS (December 28, 1814â€“August 31, 1900) was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Superphosphate is a fertiliser produced by the action of concentrated Sulphuric Acid on ground phosphate rock. ... Fertilizers are chemicals given to plants with the intention of promoting growth; they are usually applied either via the soil or by foliar spraying. ... Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev Sergei Vasiljevich Lebedev ( July 25, 1874 - May 1, 1934) - Russian Chemist, Inventor of synthetic rubber. ... Synthetic rubber is any type of artificially made polymer material which acts as an elastomer. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... Anton von Leeuwenhoek Anton van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 _ August 26, 1723) was a tradesman and scientist from Delft, in the Netherlands. ... Robert Hookes microscope (1665) - an engineered device used to study living systems. ... Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822-1900) was born in Mussy-la-Ville, Belgium, in 1822. ... A colorized automobile engine The internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which the burning of a fuel occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. ... A 1962 Rebel. A wooden speedboat with an outboard engine. ... Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American chemist, famous for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionised archaeology. ... Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring isotope carbon-14 (14C) to determine the age of carbonaceous materials up to about 60,000 years. ... Freiherr Justus von Liebig (May 12, 1803 in Darmstadt, Germany â€“ April 18, 1873 in Munich, Germany) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and worked on the organization of organic chemistry. ... General Name, symbol, number nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, period, block 15, 2, p Appearance colorless gas Standard atomic weight 14. ... Spreading manure, an organic fertilizer Fertilizers (also spelled fertilisers) are compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either via the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves. ... Otto Lilienthal Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 â€“ 10 August 1896), the German Glider King, was a pioneer of human aviation. ... For other uses, see Glider (disambiguation). ... Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist (1862-1931) was a Swedish inventor. ... Hans Lippershey (1570â€“September 1619) was a Dutch lensmaker. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (October 18, 1847 â€“ March 16, 1923) (ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ€ ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð›Ð¾Ð´Ñ‹Ð³Ð¸Ð½ in Russian) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the Incandescent light bulb. ... An electrical filament is a thread of metal, usually tungsten, which is used to convert electricity into light in incandescent light bulbs (as developed in 1878 by Joseph Wilson Swan, among others), and into heat in vacuum tube devices. ... Light bulb redirects here. ... Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (Russian: ÐžÐ»ÐµÐ³ Ð’Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð›Ð¾ÑÐµÐ²) (10 May 1903 - 22 January 1942[1], [2]) was a scientist and inventor. ... â€œLEDâ€ redirects here. ... Professor Archibald Montgomery Low Professor Archibald Montgomery Low (born 1888 Purley, London, died September 1956) was an English engineer, research physicist and inventor, he was also the author of more than 40 books. ... Auguste (left) and Louis LumiÃ¨re. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Giovanni Biagio Luppis von Rammer (1813-1875) Giovanni Biagio Luppis von Rammer (August 27, 1813 â€“ January 11, 1875) was a navy officer from Fiume (today Rijeka, in Croatia) who had the idea of the first self-propelled torpedo. ... Anthem Volkshymne (Peoples Anthem) The Austrian Empire Capital Vienna Language(s) German Hungarian Romanian Czech Slovakian Slovenian Croatian Serbian Italian Polish Ruthenian Religion Roman Catholic Government Monarchy History - Established 1804 - Ausgleich 1867 The Crown of the Austrian Emperor The Austrian Empire (German: ) was a modern era successor empire founded... The torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ...

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Ma Jun, (c. 200-265), China — South Pointing Chariot (see differential gear), mechanical puppet theater, chain pumps, improved silk looms
Charles Macintosh, (1766-1843), Scotland — waterproof raincoat, life vest
Sake Dean Mahomed, (c. 1759), India — shampoo
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, (1896-1964), Russia - Maksutov telescope.
George William Manby, (1765-1854), England — Fire extinguisher
Guglielmo Marconi, (1874-1937), Italy — radio telegraphy
John Landis Mason, (1826-1902), USA — Mason jars
Henry Maudslay, (1771-1831), England — screw-cutting lathe, bench micrometer
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) and Thomas Sutton Scotland — colour photography
John McAdam, (1756-1836), Scotland — improved "macadam" road surface
Elijah McCoy, (1843-1929), Canada — Displacement lubricator
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés, (1817-1880), France — margarine
Dmitri Mendeleev, (1834-1907), Russia - Periodic table, pyrocollodion.
Antonio Meucci, (1808-1889), Italy — telephone (prototype)
Edouard Michelin, (1859-1940), France — pneumatic tyre
Pavel Molchanov, (1893-1941), Russia - Radiosonde.
Montgolfier brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), France — hot-air balloon
John J. Montgomery, (1858-1911), USA — heavier-than-air gliders
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, (1819-1885), Spain — steam powered submarine
Robert Moog, (1934-2005), USA — the Moog synthesizer
Samuel Morey, (1762-1843), USA — internal combustion engine
Garrett A. Morgan, (1877-1963), USA — inventor of the gas mask, and traffic signal.
Samuel Morse, (1791-1872), USA — telegraph
William Murdoch, (1754-1839), Scotland — Gas lighting
Jozef Murgas, (1864-1929), Slovakia — inventor of the wireless telegraph (forerunner of the radio)
Pieter van Musschenbroek, (1692-1761), Netherlands — Leyden jar, pyrometer

South Pointing Chariot (replica) Ma Jun (é¦¬éˆž, Wade-Giles: Ma ChÃ¼n; 200 - 265), styled Deheng (å¾³è¡¡), was a Chinese mechanical engineer and government official during the Three Kingdoms era of China. ... South Pointing Chariot (replica) The South Pointing Chariot (Zhi Nan Che æŒ‡å—è»Š) is widely regarded as the most complex geared mechanism of the ancient Chinese civilization, and was continually used throughout the medieval period as well. ... In this differential, input torque is applied to the ring gear (blue). ... The word mechanical can mean one of several things: A device or principle described as mechanical relates to a mechanism or machine, or the realm of Newtonian mechanics. ... A puppet is a representational object manipulated by a puppeteer. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... The chain pump is a type of water pump where an endless chain has positioned on it a series of circular discs. ... For other uses of this word, see Silk (disambiguation). ... For the graphical adventure game, see LOOM. A Turkish woman in Konya works at a traditional loom. ... Charles Macintosh (December 29, 1766 _ July 25, 1843) was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics. ... This article is about the country. ... Waterproof fabrics are usually natural or synthetic fabrics that are laminated to or coated in some sort of permanently waterproofing material, such as rubber, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane (PU), silicone elastomer, and wax. ... The raincoat, a garment worn to protect the upper body from rain, is a compromise between fashion and utility. ... A personal flotation device (also named PFD, lifejacket, life preserver, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, life belt) is a device designed to keep a wearer afloat and their head above water, often in swimming pools, rivers, lakes, or oceans. ... Shampoo is a common hair care product used for the removal of oils, dirt, skin particles, dandruff, environmental pollutants and other contaminant particles that gradually build up in hair. ... Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (Russian:Ð”Ð¼Ð¸Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸Ð¹ Ð”Ð¼Ð¸Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐœÐ°ÐºÑÑƒÑ‚Ð¾Ð²) (23 April [O.S. 11 April] 1896-August 12, 1964) was a Soviet/Russian optician and astronomer. ... A 150mm aperture Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. ... Captain George William Manby (born November 28, 1765 in Denver; died November 18, 1854 in Great Yarmouth) was the inventor of an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Fire extinguisher A fire extinguisher is a device used to put out a fire, often in an emergency situation. ... For the inventor of radio,Marconi see the competing claims in history of radio and the invention of radio. ... Telegraph and Telegram redirect here. ... John Landis Mason (1826 - February 1902) was a native of Philadelphia, a tinsmith and the patentee of the metal screw-on lid for fruit jars that have come to be known as Mason jars. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Henry Maudslay. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Lathe (disambiguation). ... Outside, inside, and depth micrometers A micrometer, also known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a widely used device in mechanical engineering for precisely measuring thickness of blocks, outer and inner diameters of shafts and depths of slots. ... James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 â€“ 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His most significant achievement was aggregating a set of equations in electricity, magnetism and inductance â€” eponymously named Maxwells equations â€” including an important modification (extension) of the AmpÃ¨res... Thomas Sutton (1532-1611) was a British civil servant and businessman. ... This article is about the country. ... Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. ... Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by John Loudon McAdam in the early 1800s. ... This article is about the country. ... Elijah J. McCoy Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1843[1] â€“ October 10, 1929) was a Afro-Canadian inventor. ... The displacement lubricator is an automatic oil lubricator for steam engines first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1860 by John Ramsbottom. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Margarine in a tub Margarine (pronunciation: ), as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. ... Portrait of Dmitri Mendeleev by Ilya Repin (Russian: , Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev ) (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 in Tobolsk â€“ 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907 in Saint Petersburg), was a Russian chemist and inventor. ... The Periodic Table redirects here. ... Pyrocollodion is a smokeless powder invented by Dimitri Mendeleev. ... Antonio Meucci. ... For other uses, see Telephone (disambiguation). ... Edouard Michelin, b. ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ... Pavel Molchanov Pavel Alexandrovich Molchanov (Russian: ) (February 18, 1893 [O.S. February 6] in Volosovo, Imperial Russia â€” October 1941, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian meteorologist, who invented and launched for the first time radiosonde. ... radiosonde with measuring instruments A radiosonde (Sonde is German for probe) is a unit for use in weather balloons that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them to a fixed receiver. ... The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 – June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 – August 2, 1799), inventors of the montgolfière hot air balloon. ... John Joseph Montgomery (c. ... Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol (September 28, 1819 - September 6, 1885) was the inventor of the mechanically driven submarine. ... For other uses, see Submarine (disambiguation). ... Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced // to rhyme with vogue, not //) (May 23, 1934 â€“ August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. ... The term Moog(pronounced // as in moan) synthesizer can refer to any number of analog synthesizers designed by Dr. Robert Moog or manufactured by Moog Music, and is commonly used as a generic term for analog and digital music synthesisers. ... Samuel Morely (October 23, 1762 - April 17, 1843) was an American inventor, who invented an internal combustion engine and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Belgian 1930s era L.702 model civilian mask. ... Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ... Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 â€“ April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail, of the Morse Code. ... William Murdoch. ... This article is about the country. ... Gas lighting is the process of burning piped natural gas or coal gas for illumination. ... Jozef MurgaÅ¡ Jozef MurgaÅ¡ (17 February 1864, Tajov, Slovakia â€“ 11 May 1929, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania) was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot, and Roman Catholic pastor. ... Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph. ... Pieter (Petrus) van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 - 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist who is credited with the invention of the Leyden jar, the first capacitor. ... Original capacitor The Leyden jar is a device for storing electric charge invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek (1700â€“1748). ... A pyrometer is a temperature measuring device, which may consist of several different arrangements. ...

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John Napier, (1550-1617), Scotland — logarithms
James Nasmyth, (1808-1890), Scotland — steam hammer
John von Neumann, (1903-1957), Hungary — Von Neumann computer architecture
Isaac Newton,(1642-1727), England — reflecting telescope (which reduces chromatic aberration)
Joseph Nicephore Niépce, (1765-1833), France — photography
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa, (1926-), Japan — Optical communication system, SIT/SITh (Static Induction Transistor/Thyristor), Laser diode, PIN diode
Alfred Nobel, (1833-1896), Sweden — dynamite
Carl Rickard Nyberg, (1858-1939), Sweden — the blowtorch

For other people with the same name, see John Napier (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... In mathematics, if two variables of bn = x are known, the third can be found. ... James Nasmyth James Hall Nasmyth (August 19, 1808 â€“ May 7, 1890) was an engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. ... This article is about the country. ... The steam hammer is a power-driven hammer used in forgings. ... For other persons named John Neumann, see John Neumann (disambiguation). ... Design of the Von Neumann architecture For the robotic architecture also named after Von Neumann, see Von Neumann machine The von Neumann architecture is a computer design model that uses a single storage structure to hold both instructions and data. ... Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 â€“ 31 March 1727) [ OS: 25 December 1642 â€“ 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Chromatic aberration is caused by the dispersion of the lens material, the variation of its refractive index n with the wavelength of light. ... NicÃ©phore NiÃ©pce, circa 1795. ... Photography [fÓ™tÉ‘grÓ™fi:],[foÊŠtÉ‘grÓ™fi:] is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. ... Jun-Ichi Nishizawa(è¥¿æ¾¤æ½¤ä¸€, born September 12, 1926 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese engineer known for his invention of optical communication systems (including optical fiber,laser diode etc. ... Optical communication is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium. ... The static induction thyristor (SI-thyristor, SITh) is a thyristor with a buried gate structure in which the gate electrodes are placed in n-base region. ... A packaged laser diode with penny for scale. ... Layers of a PIN diode PIN diode is a diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between p-type semiconductor and n-type semiconductor regions. ... (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Swedenâ€”December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. ... Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) as an adsorbent. ... Carl Rickard Nyberg (May 28, 1858, Arboga - 1939) was the founder of Max Sieverts LÃ¶dlampfabrik, then one of the largest industries in Sundbyberg. ... The word blowtorch can mean:- A cutting torch used for cutting metal. ...

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Theophil Wilgodt Odhner, (1845–1903), Sweden — the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator
Hans Christian Ørsted, (1777–1851), Denmark — electromagnetism, aluminium
Elisha Otis, (1811–1861), USA — passenger elevator with safety device
William Oughtred, (1575–1660), England — slide rule

W. T. Odhners 1877 arithmometer Willgodt Theophil Odhner (in Cyrillic, Ð’Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐ³Ð¾Ð´Ñ‚ Ð¢ÐµÐ¾Ñ„Ð¸Ð» ÐžÐ´Ð½ÐµÑ€) (August 10, 1845 â€“ September 15, 1903) was a Swedish mechanic and inventor of the Odhner arithmometer, a mechanical calculator. ... A mechanical calculator is a device that does computations without the aid of electricity. ... A mechanical calculator is a device that does computations without the aid of electricity. ... â€œÃ˜rstedâ€ redirects here. ... Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field: a field which exerts a force on particles that possess the property of electric charge, and is in turn affected by the presence and motion of those particles. ... Aluminum redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... William Oughtred William Oughtred (March 5, 1575 â€“ June 30, 1660) was an English mathematician. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A typical 10 inch student slide rule (Pickett N902-T simplex trig). ...

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Helge Palmcrantz, (1842-1880), Sweden — the multi-barrel, lever-actuated, machine gun
Daniel David Palmer, (1845-1913), Canada — Chiropractic
Luigi Palmieri, (1807-1896), Italy — seismometer
Alexander Parkes, (1831-1890), England — celluloid
Charles Algernon Parsons, (1854-1931), British — steam turbine
Spede Pasanen, (1930-2001), Finland — The ski jumping sling
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662), France — barometer
Les Paul, (1915-), USA — Multitrack recording
Nicolae Paulescu, (1869 - 1931), Romania — Insulin
Eugen Pavel, Romania — Hyper CD-ROM
Gustaf Erik Pasch, (1788-1862), Sweden — the safety match
Arthur Paul Pedrick, England — chromatically selective cat flap and others
John Pemberton, (1831-1888), USA — Coca-Cola
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, (1871-1922), Croatia — mechanical pencil
Henry Perky, (1843-1906), USA — Shredded wheat
Stephen Perry, England — rubber band
Peter Petroff, (1919-2004), Bulgaria — digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Fritz Pfleumer, (1881-1945), Germany — Magnetic Tape
Joseph Plateau, (1801-1883), Belgium — phenakistiscope (stroboscope)
Baltzar von Platen, (1898-1984), Sweden — refrigerator
James Leonard Plimpton, USA — roller skates
Petrache Poenaru, (1799 - 1875), Romania — Fountain pen
Christopher Polhem, (1661-1751), Sweden — the modern padlock
Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), USA, — the Jolly Jumper baby harness
Alexander Stepanovich Popov, (1859-1906), Russia - Lightning detector.
George Pullman, (1831-1897), USA — Pullman sleep wagon
Mihajlo Pupin, (1858-1935), Serbia — pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator
Tivadar Puskas, (1844-1893), Hungary — telephone exchange

Helge Palmcrantz (1842-1880), Swedish inventor and industrialist. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Daniel David Palmer or DD Palmer (March 7, 1845 â€“ October 20, 1913) was the founder of chiropractic. ... Chiropractic (from Greek chiros and praktikos meaning done by hand) is a health care profession whose purpose is to diagnose and treat mechanical disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal system with the intention of affecting the nervous system and improving health. ... Luigi Palmieri (April 22, 1807 - September 9, 1896) was an Italian physicist and meteorologist. ... Seismometers (in Greek seismos = earthquake and metero = measure) are used by seismologists to measure and record the size and force of seismic waves. ... The first Celluloids were invented in Birmingham England by Alexander Parkes although he did not live to see their full impact on film. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents, generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic. ... Charles Algernon Parsons Compund Steam Turbine, circa 1887 Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, O.M. (June 13, 1854 â€“ February 11, 1931) was a British engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. ... A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into useful mechanical work. ... Pertti Spede Olavi Pasanen (Kuopio, April 10, 1930 â€“ September 7, 2001 at Kirkkonummi) was a Finnish film director, humorist and practitioner of gags. ... The ski jumping sling system is training equipment for ski jumpers. ... Blaise Pascal (pronounced ), (June 20 [[1624 // ]] â€“ August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... A barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. ... This article is about the musician. ... The Tascam 85 16B analogue tape recorder can record 16 tracks of audio on 1 inch (2. ... Nicolae Paulescu (October 30, 1869, Bucharest - July 17, 1931, Bucharest) was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine and the discoverer of insulin. ... Not to be confused with inulin. ... Dr. Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM, a 3D optical data storage medium with a claimed initial capacity of 10 TB and with a theoretical capacity of 1 PB[1] on a single disc. ... Gustaf Erik Pasch (1788-1862) was a Swedish inventor and professor of chemistry at Karolinska institute in Stockholm and inventor of the safety match. ... For other uses, see Match (disambiguation). ... Arthur Paul Pedrick was a prolific British inventor who obtained more than 80 United Kingdom patents in the 1960s and 1970s. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... John pemberton DID COCANIE AND was adicked John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831â€“August 16, 1888) was an American druggist and the creator of Coca-Cola. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (April 20, 1871 - February 5, 1922) was an engineer and inventor from Croatia. ... A ratchet-type mechanical pencil A mechanical pencil, lead pencil or clicky pencil (other names include clutch pencil, or Pacer after a Papermate model, a genericized trademark) is a pencil containing an internal mechanism which pushes (propels) the thin graphite lead through the tip. ... Henry D. Perky (December 1843 â€“ June 29, 1906) was a lawyer, businessman, promoter and inventor. ... Post Cereals shredded wheat Shredded Wheat is a breakfast cereal made from whole wheat. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the common household item. ... Peter Petroff (October 21, 1919 â€“ February 7, 2003) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer of Bulgarian origin. ... Fritz Pfleumer (20 March 1881 in Salzburg - 29 August 1945 in Radebeul) was a German engineer and inventor of magnetic tape. ... Compact audio cassette Magnetic tape is a non-volatile storage medium consisting of a magnetic coating on a thin plastic strip. ... Plateaus phenakistiscope Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. ... The phenakistoscope (also spelled phenakistiscope) was an early animation device, the predecessor to the zoetrope. ... Baltzar von Platen can refer to: Baltzar von Platen (1766-1829) - a Swedish naval officer and statesman Baltzar von Platen (1804-1875) - a Swedish statesman Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984) - a Swedish inventor This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... The absorption refrigerator is a refrigerator that utilizes a heat source to provide the energy needed to drive the cooling system rather than being dependent on electricity to run a compressor. ... James Leonard Plimpton (1828-1911) is known for changing the skating world with his patented roller skates in 1863. ... Inline roller skater on a slalom course Roller skating is travelling on smooth terrain with roller skates. ... Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875) was a famous Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era. ... A fountain pen is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, that contains a reservoir of water-based ink that is fed to a nib through a feed via a combination of gravity and capillary action. ... Christopher Polhem on the Swedish 500 kronor bank note. ... Padlock A modern padlock. ... Susan Olivia Poole (1889-1975) grew up in Minnesota at the White Earth Indian Reserve. ... Alexander Popov (1859-1905) Alexander Stepanovich Popov (Russian: ÐÐ»ÐµÐºÑÐ°Ð½Ð´Ñ€ Ð¡Ñ‚ÐµÐ¿Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐŸÐ¾Ð¿Ð¾Ð²) (March 4/16 1859 - January 13/December 31 1905/6) was a Russian physicist who publicly demonstrated the transmission of radio waves (but did not apply for a patent for this invention). ... Lightning detector at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 â€“ October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. ... The interior of a Pullman car on the Chicago and Alton Railroad circa 1900. ... Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph. ... Not to be confused with Republika Srpska. ... In electronics, a loading coil is a coil (inductor) that does not provide coupling to any other circuit, but is inserted in a circuit to increase its inductance. ... Tivadar Puskás (17 September 1844 - 16 March 1893) was a Hungarian inventor, telephone pioneer, inventor of the telephone exchange. ... A telephone operator manually connecting calls with patch cables at a telephone switchboard. ...

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Karl von Reichenbach, (1788-1869), paraffin, creosote oil, phenol
Ira Remsen, (1846-1927), USA — saccharin
Josef Ressel, (1793-1857), Czechoslovakia — ship propeller
Charles Francis Richter, (1900-1985), USA — Richter magnitude scale
John Roebuck, (1718-1794) England — lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), Germany — the X-ray machine
Erno Rubik, (1944-), Hungary — Rubik's cube, Rubik's Magic and Rubik's Clock
Ernst Ruska, (1906-1988), Germany — electron microscope

Karl, Freiherr von Reichenbach was born 1788. ... For other uses, see Paraffin (disambiguation). ... Creosote is the name used for a variety of products: wood creosote, coal tar creosote, coal tar, coal tar pitch, and coal tar pitch volatiles. ... Phenol, also known under an older name of carbolic acid, is a colourless crystalline solid with a typical sweet tarry odor. ... Ira Remsen (February 10, 1846 - March 4, 1927) was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. ... The skeletal formula of saccharin Saccharin[1] is the oldest artificial sweetener. ... Josef LudvÃk FrantiÅ¡ek Ressel (in Czech) or Joseph Ludwig Franz Ressel (in German) or Josip Ressel (in Slovenian and Croatian) (June 29, 1793- October 9, 1857) was a Bohemian forest warden and the inventor of the ships propeller. ... For other uses, see Propeller (disambiguation). ... Charles Francis Richter (April 26, 1900 â€“ September 30, 1985), was an American seismologist, born outside of Hamilton, Ohio. ... The Richter magnitude scale, or more correctly local magnitude ML scale, assigns a single number to quantify the amount of seismic energy released by an earthquake. ... This article is about the English inventor. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Lead Chamber Process was an industrial process used to produce relatively strong concentrations of sulfuric acid in large quantities. ... Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen (in English: William Conrad Roentgen) (March 27, 1845 â€“ February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of WÃ¼rzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or RÃ¶ntgen Rays, an achievement... Mrs. ... Ernő Rubik. ... Variations of Rubiks Cubes (from left to right: Rubiks Revenge, Rubiks Cube, Professors Cube, & Pocket Cube). ... Rubiks Magic Rubiks Magic, like Rubiks Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture ErnÅ‘ Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. ... Rubiks Clock, like Rubiks Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture ErnÅ‘ Rubik. ... Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906â€“May 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ... An electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses electrons as a way to illuminate and create an image of a specimen. ...

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Alberto Santos-Dumont, (1873-1932), Brazil — non-rigid airship and airplane
Thomas Savery, (1650-1715), England — steam engine
Adolphe Sax, (1814-1894), Belgium — saxophone
Bela Schick, (1877-1967), Hungary — diphtheria test
Christian Schnabel (1878-1936), German, designed simplistic food cutleries
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (1946- ), Netherlands Major contributor to development of Compact Disc
August Schrader, USA — Schrader valve for Pneumatic tire
David Schwarz, (1852-1897), Croatia, — rigid ship, later called Zeppelin
Marc Seguin, (1786-1875), France — wire-cable suspension bridge
Sennacherib, (705–681 BC), Iraq (Mesopotamia) — screw pump
Iwan Serrurier, (active 1920s), Netherlands/USA — inventor of the Moviola for film editing.
Mark Serrurier, (190?-1988), USA — Serrurier truss for Optical telescopes
Gerhard Sessler, (1931-), Germany — foil electret microphone, silicon microphone
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, 1894-1974, Russia/United States of America - Air-to-air refueling.
Shen Kuo (1031-1095), China, improved gnomon, armillary sphere, clepsydra, and sighting tube
William Bradford Shockley, (1910-1989), USA — co-inventor of transistor
Henry Shrapnel, (1761-1842), England — Shrapnel shell ammunition
Vladimir Shukhov, (1853-1939), Russia - Shukhov cracking process.
Augustus Siebe, (1788-1872), Saxony&England Inventor of the standard diving dress
Werner von Siemens, (1816-1892), Germany — an electromechanical "dynamic"
Sir William Siemens, (1823-1883), Germany — regenerative furnace
Igor Sikorsky, (1889-1972), Russia — helicopter
Charles Simonyi, (1948-), Hungary — Hungarian notation
Isaac Singer, (1811-1875), USA — sewing machine
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, (1860-1930), USA — gyroscope-guided automatic pilot
George Stephenson, (1781-1848), England — steam locomotive
Simon Stevin, (1548-1620), Netherlands — land yacht
Aurel Stodola, (1859-1942), Slovakia - gas turbines
Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (1790-1878), Scotland — Stirling engine
Levi Strauss, (1829-1902), USA — blue jeans
John Stringfellow, (1799-1883), England — airplane
Almon Strowger, (1839-1902), USA — automatic telephone exchange
Su Song, (1020-1101), China, first chain drive
Simon Sunatori, (1959-), Canada — inventor of Sunatori Pen
Joseph Swan, (1828-1914), England — Incandescent light bulb
Percy Spencer, (1894-1970), USA — microwave oven
Leo Szilard, (1898-1964), Hungary — Co-developed the Atomic Bomb, patented the nuclear reactor, catalyst of the Manhattan Project

This article is about the aviator. ... USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ... Airplane and Aeroplane redirect here. ... Thomas Savery (c. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... // The term steam engine may also refer to an entire railroad steam locomotive. ... Life-size statue of Adolphe Sax outside his birthplace in Dinant, Belgium. ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family. ... BÃ©la Schick (July 16, 1877 - December 6, 1967), was the Hungarian-born American pediatrician. ... The Schick test, invented between 1910 and 1911, is a test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Kees A. Schouhamer Immink Kees (Kornelis) Antonie Schouhamer Immink was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on December 18, 1946. ... CD redirects here. ... August Schrader was an enterprising German immigrant who set up a shop dealing in rubber products in Manhattan. ... A schrader valve on a bicycle tire. ... Firestone tire A tire (US spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of (usually) rubber placed on a wheel to cushion it. ... David Schwarz. ... Zeppelins are a type of rigid airship pioneered by German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based in part on an earlier design by aviation pioneer David Schwarz. ... Maurice Seguin (February 27, 1942 - July 17, 1999) was a French public servant, Franceâ€™s last colonial minister, and a Lieutenant with the French Paratroopers. ... A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that has been created since ancient times as early as 100 AD. Simple suspension bridges, for use by pedestrians and livestock, are still constructed, based upon the ancient Inca rope bridge. ... Sennacherib during his Babylonian war, relief from his palace in Nineveh Sennacherib (in Akkadian ÅšÃ¯n-ahhe-eriba (The moon god) ÅšÃ¯n has Replaced (Lost) Brothers for Me) was the son of Sargon II, whom he succeeded on the throne of Assyria (705 BCâ€“681 BC). ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... Screws come in a variety of shapes and sizes for different purposes. ... This article is about a mechanical device. ... Iwan Serrurier is a Dutch-born electrical engineer notable for inventing the Moviola. ... A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view film while editing. ... Film editing is the connecting of one or more shots to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. ... Mark Serrurier was an inventor and the brother of Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924. ... A Serrurier truss used on the Mayall Telescope (4. ... An optical telescope is a telescope which is used to gather, and focus, light, for directly viewing a magnified image, making a photograph, etc. ... Gerhard Sessler (February 15, 1931-) co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Laboratories in work culminating in 1962. ... Microphones redirects here. ... For other uses, see Seversky. ... This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shen Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (1031â€“1095) was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960â€“1279). ... The cantilever spar of this cable-stay bridge, the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay, forms the gnomon of a large garden sundial The gnomon is the part of a sundial that casts the shadow. ... Armillary sphere An armillary sphere (variations known as a spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of the celestial sphere, invented by the ancient Greek Eratosthenes in 255 BC. Its name comes from the Latin armilla (circle, bracelet), since it has a skeleton made of graduated metal circles linking... Clepsydra may refer to Clepsydra, a type of water thief. ... William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 â€“ August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. ... Assorted discrete transistors A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier or an electrically controlled switch. ... Henry Shrapnel (June 3, 1761 - March 13, 1842) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously of the shrapnel shell. Henry Shrapnel was born in Wiltshire, England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Shrapnel, in the strict sense, is shot deliberately included in a landmine or shell intended to be scattered by the explosion. ... Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov (Russian: ), (August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1853 - February 2, 1939) was a great Russian engineer renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for civil engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of hyperboloid structures, shell structures, tensile structures, oil... Factory of Shukhov cracking process, Baku, USSR, 1934 The Shukhov cracking process is a thermal cracking process invented by Vladimir Shukhov and Sergei Gavrilov. ... Augustus Siebe (1788-1872) was a German chiefly known for his contributions to diving equipment. ... Location Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DED Capital Dresden Minister-President Georg Milbradt (CDU) Governing parties CDU / SPD Votes in Bundesrat 4 (from 69) Basic statistics Area 18,416 kmÂ² (7,110 sq mi) Population 4,252,000 (11/2006)[1] - Density 231 /km... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The standard diving dress was used from its invention in 1837 until replaced by the rise of SCUBA and other modern diving outfits in the 1960s. ... Ernst Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner von Siemens (December 13, 1816 - December 6, 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. ... Wilhelm Siemens Carl Wilhelm Siemens (en: Charles William Siemens) (April 4, 1823 â€“ November 19, 1883) was a German engineer. ... For another meanings and similar spellings, see Sikorsky. ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ... Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi KÃ¡roly; born September 10, 1948, Budapest) is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsofts application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsofts flagship office applications. ... Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of a variable indicates its type or intended use. ... Portrait of Isaac Merritt Singer by Edward Harrison May (1869). ... Sewing machines can make a great variety of plain or patterned stitches. ... Elmer Ambrose Sperry (born October 12, 1860 in Cincinnatus, New York; died June 16, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York) was an inventor and entrepreneur. ... An autopilot is a mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being. ... George Stephenson George Stephenson For the British politician, see George Stevenson. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... One of the last mainline steam locomotives built in the UK: British Railways Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no. ... Simon Stevin Simon Stevin (1548/49 â€“ 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Aurel Stodola (1859-1942) was a Slovak engineer, physicist, and inventor. ... The worlds first commercial, oil-free gas turbine is manufactured by Capstone. ... Reverend Dr Robert Stirling The Reverend Dr Robert Stirling (October 25, 1790 - June 6, 1878) was a Scottish clergyman, and inventor of a highly efficient heat engine. ... This article is about the country. ... Cut away diagram of a Rhombic Drive Beta Stirling Engine Design Pink - Hot cylinder wall Dark Grey - Cold cylinder wall (with coolant inlet and outlet pipes in Yellow) Dark Green - Thermal insulation separating the two cylinder ends Light Green - Displacer piston Dark Blue - Power piston Light Blue - Flywheels Not Shown... Alternative meaning: Claude L vi-Strauss, the French anthropologist. ... Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics not including corduroy. ... John Stringfellows flying machine in the Science Museum, London. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Airplane and Aeroplane redirect here. ... Almon Brown Strowger (1839 â€“ May 26, 1902) gave his name to the electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. ... central office = Exchange building in the U.S. telephone exchange = Exchange building in the UK, and is also the UK name for a telephone switch, and also has a technical meaning in U.S. telecoms telephone switch is the U.S. term, but is in increasing use in technical UK... Su Song è˜‡é Œ (1020 â€“ 1101), style Zirong åå®¹, was a Chinese engineer. ... Roller chain and sprocket Mack AC delivery truck at the Petersen Automotive Museum with chain drive visible Chain drive was a popular power transmission system from the earliest days of the automobile. ... Joseph Swan Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (October 31, 1828 â€“ May 27, 1914) was an English physicist and chemist, most famous for the development of the light bulb. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Light bulb redirects here. ... Percy Lebaron Spencer (July 9, 1894 - September 8, 1970), an American, was the inventor of the microwave oven. ... Microwave oven A microwave oven, or microwave, is a kitchen appliance employing microwave radiation primarily to cook or heat food. ... Leó Szilárd (right) working with Albert Einstein. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ... This article is about the World War II nuclear project. ...

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Bernard Tellegen (1900-1990), Netherlands — pentode
Edward Teller, (1908-2003), Hungary — hydrogen bomb
Nikola Tesla, (1856-1943), Serbian-Croatian-American — Tesla Coil, induction motor, alternating current Polyphase system, wireless communication, modern robotics, logic gates, bladeless turbine, radio, VTOL aircraft, etc.
Kalman Tihanyi, (1897-1947), Hungary — co-inventor of cathode ray tube and iconoscope
Benjamin Chew Tilghman, (1821-1897), USA — sandblasting
Tipu Sultan, (1750-1799), India — iron rocket
Alfred Traeger, (1895-1980), Australia — the pedal radio
Franc Trkman, (1903-1978), Slovenia — electrical switches, accessories for opening windows
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857-1935), Russia - Spaceflight.
Mikhail Tsvet, (1872-1919), Russia - Adsorption chromatography.

Bernard D.H. Tellegen (Netherlands, 24 June 1900 - Eindhoven, 30 August 1990) was an electrical engineer and inventor of the penthode and the gyrator. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 â€“ September 9, 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)[1] was a world-renowned Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. ... Languages Serbian Religions Predominantly Serbian Orthodox Christian Related ethnic groups Other Slavic peoples, especially South Slavs See Cognate peoples below (* many Serbs opted for Yugoslav ethnicity) [27] Serbs (Serbian: Ð¡Ñ€Ð±Ð¸ or Srbi) are a South Slavic people who live mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in... Tesla Coil at Questacon, the Australian National Science Centre museum A Tesla coil (also teslacoil) is a type of resonant transformer, named after its inventor, Nikola Tesla. ... Induction Motor (IM) is one kind of AC motor where power is supplied to the rotating device by induction. ... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... A polyphase system is a means of distributing alternating current electrical power. ... Wireless telegraphy is the practice of remote writing (see telegraphy) without the wires normally involved in an electrical telegraph. ... Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application. ... A logic gate performs a logical operation on one or more logic inputs and produces a single logic output. ... The Tesla turbine is a bladeless turbine design patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. ... The Hawker Harrier, one of the famous examples of a plane with VTOL capability. ... Nikola Tesla with his invention, a wireless lightbulb powered by the electric field surrounding it. ... KÃ¡lmÃ¡n Tihanyi (April 28, 1897 - February 26, 1947), was a Hungarian physicist, electrical engineer and inventor. ... Cathode ray tube employing electromagnetic focus and deflection Cutaway rendering of a color CRT: 1. ... The iconoscope was invented by Vladimir Zworykin in 1923, essencially a tube for television transmission used in the first cameras. ... Benjamin Chew Tilghman (1821 - 1903) was an US soldier and inventor. ... Man sandblasting a stone wall Device used for adding sand to the compressed air (top of which is a sieve for adding the sand) Diesel powered compressor used as an air supply for sandbasting Sandblasting or bead blasting[1] is a generic term for the process of smoothing, shaping and... Portrait of Tippu Sultan, 1792 Tippu (Tips) Sultan (full name Sultan Fateh Ali Tippu), also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli â€“ May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son of Haidar Ali by his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-nissa. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 â€“ Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Iron (disambiguation). ... This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. ... Alfred Hermann Traeger (August 2, 1895 – July 31, 1980) was an Australian inventor, chiefly known for the development of the pedal radio. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (ÐšÐ¾Ð½ÑÑ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½ ÐÐ´ÑƒÐ°Ñ€Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¦Ð¸Ð¾Ð»ÐºÐ¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹, Konstanty CioÅ‚kowski) (September 5, 1857 new style â€“ September 19, 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics who spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of the Russian town of Kaluga. ... ISS in earth orbit. ... Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸Ð» Ð¡ÐµÐ¼ÐµÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¦Ð²ÐµÑ‚, also spelled Tsvett, Tswett, Tswet, Zwet, and Cvet) (1872â€“1919) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. ... Chromatography is a family of analytical chemistry techniques for the separation of mixtures. ...

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Lewis Urry, (1927-2004), Canada — long-lasting alkaline battery

Lewis Frederick Urry, (January 29, 1927-October 19, 2004), was a Canadian chemical engineer and inventor. ... Alkaline batteries A Duracell AA alkaline battery 2 Duracell-Brand AAA Alkaline batteries Alkaline batteries are a type of power cell dependent upon the reaction between zinc and manganese dioxide (Zn/MnO2). ...

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Theophilus Van Kannel, (1841-1919), United States — revolving door (1888)
Louis R. Vitullo, (1924?-2006), United States — developed the first sexual assault evidence kit
Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), Italy — battery
Faust Vrancic, (1551-1617), Croatia — parachute

Theophilus Van Kannel was famous for inventing the revolving door, patented on August 7, 1888, he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... For the revolving door syndrome, see Recidivism. ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Louis R. Vitullo (1924?- January 3, 2006 [1]) was a Chicago police sergeant and later became chief microanalist at the citys crime lab. ... A Sexual assault evidence kit, often referred to as a forensic exam or sexual assault forensic evidence (SAFE) kit, is a set of items used by medical personnel for gathering evidence following a sexual assault. ... This article is about the physicist Alessandro Volta. ... A battery is of one or more electrochemical cells, which store chemical energy and make it available in an electrical form. ... Faust Vrančić (1551, Šibenik - January 17, 1617, Venice), also known as Faust Verantius, was a humanist, philosopher, historian, lexicographer, and inventor. ... This article is about the device. ...

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Barnes Wallis, (1887-1979), England — bouncing bomb
Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), Scotland — microwave radar
James Watt, (1736-1819), Scotland — improved Steam engine
Thomas Wedgwood, (1771-1805), England — first (not permanent) photograph
Jonas Wenström, (1855-1893), Sweden — three-phase electrical system
George Westinghouse, (1846-1914), USA — Air brake
Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1875), England — concertina, stereoscope, microphone, Playfair cipher
Eli Whitney, (1765-1825), USA — the cotton gin
Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), England — co-inventor of the jet engine
Otto Wichterle, (1913-1989), Czechoslovakia — invented modern contact lenses
Paul Winchell, (1922-2005), USA — the artificial heart
A. Baldwin Wood, (1879-1956), USA — high volume pump
Granville Woods, (1856-1910), USA — the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright, (1871-1948) and Wilbur Wright, (1867-1912), USA — powered airplane
Arthur Wynne, (1862-1945), England — creator of crossword puzzle

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Pavel Yablochkov, (1847-1894), Russia - Yablochkov candle.
Hidetsugu Yagi, (1886-1976), Japan — Yagi antenna
Yi Xing, (683-727), China, invented the escapement mechanism
Arthur M. Young, (1905-1995), USA — the Bell Helicopter

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Nikolay Zelinsky, (1861-1953), Russia - The first effective filtering coal gas mask in the world .
Zhang Heng, (78-139), China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere
Konrad Zuse, (22. June 1910 - 18. December 1995), Germany, invented the first Computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4)
Vladimir Zworykin, (1889-1982), Russia/USA - Iconoscope, kinescope.

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