2009-03-16

Inventors - 1

1. King Camp Gillettee - Born: January 5, 1855
Inventor of the Safety Razor

2. Etienne Montgolfier - Born: January 7, 1745
French inventor who with his brother, launched the first successfull Hot Air Ballon

3. Philipp Reis - Born: January 7, 1834
German schoolteacher and inventor who demonstrated the first Telephone in 1860, sixteen years before Bell patened his telephone.

4. Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir - Born: January 12, 1822
French inventor of the first practical Internal Combustion Engine

5. Benjamin Franklin - Born: January 17, 1706
American statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor who helped draft the Declaration of Independence of U.S.

6.Joseph Glidden - Born: January 18, 1813
American inventor of Barbed Wire

7. James Watt - Born: January 19, 1736
Scottish inventor who improved Steam Engines, adapted the telescope for use in measuring distance and coined the term " Horsepower "

8. Andre Marie Ampere - Born: January 22, 1775
French mathematician and physicist who gave his name to the SI unit of Electrical Current ( ampere or amp )

9. Alexander Graham Bell - Born: March 3, 1847
American inventor of the Telephone

10. William Oughtred - Born: March 5, 1574
English mathematician and inventor of the Sliderule

11.Joseph N. Niepce - Born: March 7, 1765
French chemist and inventor of Photography

12. Norbert Rillieux - March 15, 1806
American Sugar chemist and inventor

13. Joseph Lister - Born: April 5, 1827
Bristish surgeon and inventor, president of the Royal Society (1895-1900)

14. Richard Trevithick - Born: April 13, 1771
English inventor Steam Locomotive

15. Alfred Butts - Born: April 13, 1899
American inventor of the Bordgame Scrabble

16. Ole Evinrude - Born: April 19, 1877
Norwegian inventor of the Outboard Marine

17. Edwin H. Land - Born: May 7, 1909
American inventor of Instant Photography who developed the Polaroid Land Camera

18. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit - Born: May 14, 1686
German physicist inventor of the Mercury Thermometer and gave his name to a scale of temperature

19. David Edward Highes - Born: May 16, 1831
English inventor of the Microphone and the Teleprinter

20. John Dunlop - February 5, 1840
Scottist inventor of the Pneumatic Fire

21. Sir HiramStevens Maxim - Born: February 5, 1840
American inventor of the first fully Automatic Machine Gun

22. Sir Francis Petit Smith - Born: February 9, 1808
English inventor who developed the first ship with screw propellers

23. Thomas Alva Edison - Born: February 11, 1847
American inventor of the kinetoscope, which led to motion pictures, the incondescent light bulb, the phonograph, and over 1000 other devices.

24. Cyrus Hall McCormick - Born: February 15, 1809
American inventor of the machanical reaper

25. Rene Laennec - February 17, 1781
French physician and inventor of the stethoscope

26. Count Alessandro Volta - Born: February 18, 1745
Italian scientist, inventor of the electri battery, for whom the unit of the electrical potential is named ( Volt )

27. George M. Pullman - Born: March 3, 1831
American inventor of the railway sleeping car

28. Emil Berliner - Born: May 20, 1851
German-born American inventor of the flat-disc gramophone

29. Dr. Robert Moog - May 23, 1934
American inventor of Moog synthesizer

30. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin - Born: may 28, 1738
French physician, inventor of the guillotine

31. Heinrich Hertz - Born: February 22, 1857
German physicist, first to broadcast and recieve radio waves, after whom the unit of frequency was names Hertz

32. Eli Whitney - Born: December 8, 1765
American inventor of the cottongin and the uniformity method of musket manufacturing

33. Sir Humphry Davy - Born: December 17, 1778
English chemist ang inventor of the miner's safety lamp

34. Sir John Ambrose Fleming - November 29, 1849
English physicist and engineer, inventor of the thermionic valve

35. Samuel Crompton - Born: December 3, 1753
English inventor of Crompton's mule, a cotton spinning machine

36. Thomas Beecham - Born: December 3, 1820
English inventor of Beecham's pills, grandfather of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham

37. Sir Richard Arkwright - Born: December 23, 1732
English inventor and pioneer of manufacturing techniques who created the spinning frame

38. Charles Macintosh - Born: December 29, 1766
Scottish chemist who invented rubberized water proof fabric and hence gave his name to a kind of raincoat

39. Charles Goodyear - Born: December 29, 1800
American inventor who created Vulcanized rubber

40. Alexander Parkes - Born: December 29, 1813
English chemist who invented Celluloid

41. John Taliaferro Thompson - Born: December 31, 1860
U.S. Colonel inventor of the Tommy Gun

Source: World History

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