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Inventors
Inventors you need to know
Description | Inventor |
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Greek mathematician and inventor, built siege-engine and eponymous screw for raising water | Archimedes |
Scottish-born American inventor, produced first telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
German engineer and car manufacturer who developed the two-stroke engine, 1844-1929 | Karl Benz |
French aviator and inventor, made first flight across English channel, invented auto lights | Louis Bleriot |
German, 1912-77, Rocket pioneer, perfected V-2 rockets, came to US and developed Explorer I satellite | Vernher von Braun |
French photgraphic pioneer, 1789-1851, developed process to make photographs | Louis Daguerre |
German egineer, 1858-1913, began work on internal combustion engines, demonstrated first practical compression ignition engine | Rudolph Diesel |
American inventor, 1847-1931, more than 1000 patents, including gramophone, light bulb, and kinematoscope | Thomas A. Edison |
American engineer, 1895-1983, discovered energetic/synergetic geometry, Tensegrity structures, developed Geodesic Domes | Buckminster Fuller |
German printer, regarded as inventor of printing, 1400-68 | Johannes Gutenberg |
American inventor who built first practical sewing machine, 1819-67 | Elias Howe |
American inventor known for discoveries relating to Polaroid photos and built the first helicopter | Edwin Land |
Croatian-American physicist, 1856-1943, worked at Edison's labs at Menlo Park, invented improved dynamo, transformer, electric bulb and high-frequency coil that bears his name | Nikola Tesla |
Scottish engineer, 1736-1819, improved the steam engine, unit of electric power isnaemed after him | James Watt |
American engineer, 1846-1914, invented air-brake for trains, pioneered use of AC power | George Westinghouse |
American inventor of cotton gin in 1793, devised process that mad einterchangeable musket parts possible | Eli Whitney |