2009-03-16

Inventors - 2

1. Adolphe Sax - Born: November 6, 1814
Belgian inventor of the Saxo-phone

2. James Naismith - Born: November 6, 1861
American inventor of basketball

3. Gail Borden - Born: November 9, 1801
American publisher, surveyor, and inventor of evaporated milk and juice concentrate, founder of the Borden Company.

4. Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles - Born: November 12, 1746
French scientist, inventor of the hydrogen balloon

5. Robert Fulton - Born: November 14, 1765
American inventor and artist who put the steamboat design into practice

6. Leo Baekeland - Born: November 14, 1863
Belgian chemist who invented Bakelite, the world first fully synthetic plastic

7. Lee De Forest - Born: August 26, 1873
American inventor of the Audion vacuum ( radio ) tube

8. Richard March Hoe - Born: September 12, 1812
American inventor who built the first successfull rotary printing press

9. Leon Foucault - Born: September 18, 1819
French physicist who invented the pendulum and the gyroscope

10. James Dewar - Born: September 20, 1842
Scottish scientist, inventor of the vacuum flask

11. John Loudon McAdam - Born: September 21, 1765
Scottish inventor of the macadam road surface

12. Michael Faraday - Born: September 22, 1791
English physicist and chemist who invented the electric motor, the dynamo, the transformer, and the generator

13. Georges Claude - Born: September 24, 1870
French chemist whose work led to the invention of the neon light

14. Nicholas- Joseph Cugnot - Born: September 25, 1725
French military engineer and inventor who designed and built the first automobile

15. Hans Geiger - Born: September 30, 1882
German physicist after whom the Geiger counter is named

16. John Gorrie - Born: October 3, 1803
American physician and inventor of the cold-air process of refrigeration

17. George Westinghouse - Born: October 6, 1846
American inventor who founded Westinghouse Electric company

18. J. Frank Duryea - Born: October 8, 1869
American inventor of the first automobile built and operated in the United States

19. Isaac Newton Lewis - Born: October 12, 1858
American army officer who invented the machine gun

20. Evangelista Torricelli - Born: October 15, 1608
Italian physicist and mathematician, inventor of the barometer

21. Auguste Lumiere - Born: October 19, 1862
French chemist and inventor who made the first movie ( Workers leaving Factory )

22. Alfred Bernhard Nobel - Born: October 21, 1833
Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and willed his fortune to create the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, Literature and Peace

23. Nicholas Appert - Born: October 23, 1752
French cook who invented food canning and the bouillon tablet

24. Joseph Swan - Born: October 31, 1828
English chemist and inventor who made the world's first public demonstration of a practical light bulb in Jan 1879, nine months before Edison's first successful test

25. John Montago, fourth Earl of Sandwich - Born: November 3, 1718
English politician and inventor of the Sandwich, for whom the Sandwich Islands were named

26. Henry Shrapnel - Born: June 3, 1761
Britist army officer and inventor of the Shrapnel Shell

27. Sir Christopher Cockerell - Born: June 4, 1910
English inventor of the hovercraft

28. Dennis Gabor - Born: June 5, 1900
Hungarian inventor of holography and three-decimal laser photography

29. Edward Davy - Born: June 16, 1806
English scientist, inventor of the wireless telegraph repeater

30. John Robert Gregg - Born: June 17, 1867
Irish inventor of shorthand

31. Johannes Gutenberg - Born: June 23, 1400
German inventor of the moveable type printing press

32. George Stephenson - Born: June 9, 1781
English inventor of the steam locomotive

33. Fred Waring - Born: June 9, 1900
American musician and conductor, inventor of the waring blender

34. Philo Farnworth - Born: August 19, 1906
American inventor who created the first all-electronic television reciever

35. Antoine Joseph Sax - Born: June 23, 1814
Belgian inventor of the Saxophone

36. William Thomson, first baron Kelvin - Born: June 26, 1824
Irish-born physicist who gave his name to the absolute temperature scale

37. Elias Howe - Born: July 9, 1819
American inventor who patented the lock stitch sewing machine

38. Nikola Tesla - Born: July 19, 1856
Serbian-born American inventor, engineer, and scientist who patented fluorescent lights and about 700 other inventions

39. George Eastman - Born: July 12, 1854
American philanthropist and inventor of the Kodak Camera

40. Samuel Colt - Born: July 19, 1814
American inventor of the colt revolver handgun

41. Elisha Graves Otis - Born: August 3, 1811
American inventor of the safe elevator

42. Nicolas-Jacques Conte - Born: August 4, 1755
French inventor of the modern pencil

43. Johann Christoph Denner - Born: August 13, 1655
German inventor of the clarinet

44. Hans Christian Oersted - Born: August 14, 1777
Danish physicist for whom a unit of magnetic field strength is named

45. James Nasmyth - Born: August 19, 1808
Scottish engineer, inventor of the steam hammer

46. John Logie Baird - Born: August 13, 1888
Scottish inventor of the Television

Source: World History

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