Inventions and discoveries
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| Theory of electromagnetic field | James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish mathematical physicist -
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| Electrons | Sir Joseph John Thompson - British physicist - Nobel laureate in physics
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| Cathode ray tube | Sir Joseph John Thompson - British physicist - Nobel laureate in physics
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| Electric light bulb | Thomas Alva Edison - American inventor and businessman -
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| Oxygen | Joseph Priestley - English chemist -
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| Nitrous oxide | Joseph Priestley - English chemist -
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| Laws of motion | Sir Isaac Newton - English physicist and mathematician -
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| Universal gravitation | Sir Isaac Newton - English physicist and mathematician -
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| Penicillin antibiotic | Sir Alexander Fleming - Scottish biologist - Nobel laureate in physiology (medicine)
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| Laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler - Greek astronomer -
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| Formulated heliocentric model | Nicolaus Copernicus - German/Polish astronomer -
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| Formulated periodic table of elements | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendleev - Russian chemist -
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| steam engine | James Watt - Scottish inventor -
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| Developed Pitman Shorthand | Isaac Pitman - English teacher -
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| Radioactivity | Antoine Henri Becquerel - French physicist - Nobel laureate in physics
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| Developed radar | Robert Alexander Watson-Watt - Scottish physicist and engineer
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| Biologic cell | Robert Hooke - English natural philosopher
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| Practical telephone | Alexander Graham Bell - American scientist and inventor
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| Principle of population | Thomas Robert Malthus - British scholar
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| Turbo jet engine | Sir Frank Whittle - British air force engineer
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| Braille system for visually challenged | Louis Braille - French inventor
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| Television | John Logie Baird - Scottish scientist and inventor
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| Color television | John Logie Baird - Scottish scientist and inventor
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| Small pox vaccine | Edward Antony Jenner - English physician and scientist
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| Polio vaccine | Edward Salk - American medical researcher
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| Dynamite | Alfred Nobel - Swedish chemist, owned Bofors
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| Insulin | Frederick Banting - Canadian medical scientist Nobel laureate in physiology (medicine) - Youngest
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| First successful human-to-human heart transplant | Christian Neethling Barnard - South African cardiac surgeon
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| Systemic circulation and properties of blood | William Harvey - English physician
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| Chloroform | James Simpson - Scottish obstetrician
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| Rabies vaccine | Louis Pasteur - French chemist
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| Antharax vaccine | Louis Pasteur - French chemist
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| Pasteurization | Louis Pasteur - French chemist
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| Electrocardiogram (EKG/ECG) | Willem Einthoven - Dutch doctor
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| Bacteria | Antonie van Leeuwanhoek - Dutch tradesman
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| Improved Microscope | Antonie van Leeuwanhoek - Dutch tradesman
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| Quantum theory | Max Karl Planck - German physicist Nobel laureate in physics
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| X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen - German physicist Nobel laureate in physics
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| Proton | Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand physicist Nobel laureate in chemistry
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| Neutron | James Chadwick - English physicist Nobel laureate in physics
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| Mercury thermometer | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit - Dutch-German-Polish physicist
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| Radio (wireless telegraphy) | Guglielmo Marconi - Italian inventor Nobel laureate in physics
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| Car | Karl Benz - German engine designer
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| Mechanical refrigeration | James Harrison - Scottish born Australian
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| Atom bomb | Otto Hahn - German chemist Nobel laureate in chemistry
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| Polonium and radium | Marie Sklodowska-Curie - French physicist and chemist Nobel laureate in physics and chemistry
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| Logarithms | John Napier - Scottish physicist and mathematician
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| Ballpoint pen | Laslo Jozsef - Hungarian Jewish news printer
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| Atomic clock | Louis Essen - English physicist
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| Printing press | Johannes Gutenberg - German printer and publisher, blacksmith, goldsmith
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| Programmable Computer | Charles Babbage - English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer
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| Flying shuttle | John Kay - English inventor
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| Spinning frame | John Kay - English inventor
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