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LIGHT BULB
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THOMAS ALVA EDISON Light bulbs, for instance, are everywhere in houses and offices. Thomas Alva Edison worked for many years with electricity to improve the quality of the light bulb. He produced much more durable light bulbs which could last up to thirteen hours. |
| DYNAMITE | ALFRED NOBEL He was a Swedish chemist, engineer, writer, and inventor, best known for inventing dynamite and creating the prizes named after him. Nobel was the owner of the Bofors company, a company he guided from the production of iron and steel, to the large-scale manufacture of cannons and other weapons. He registered 355 patents during his life. |
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GEORGE EASTMAN was the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company and inventor of the roll of film, which replaced the glass plate, thereby making photography available to the masses. The roll of film is also a fundamental element in the development of cinema. |
| TELEVISION | JOHN BAIRD Scottish engineer and physicist, pioneer of television. He was born in Helensburgh in 1888 and died in Bexhill in 1946. Son of a Scottish minister. He studied at the Royal Technical College and at the University of Glasgow. From 1922 he devoted himself to experimentation and designed a primitive television set that could transmit the image and receive it in the radius of a few feet away. In 1926 he made the first demonstration of the television among the inhabitants of two penthouses. |
| TELEPHONE | ALEXANDER GRAHAM Alexander Graham Bell is often credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent. However, there were many other inventors such as Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci who also developed a talking telegraph. First Bell Telephone, June 1875. |
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RADIO
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NIKOLA TESLA A Croatian immigrant named Nikola Tesla patented the radio in the United States in 1943. Basically, the radio has the capacity to transmit electromagneticwaves in the formofmusic, news and other data invisibly through air. Many other appliances such as telephones, remote control toys and microwave ovens use waves to work properly. |
| LIQUID PAPER | BETTE GRAHAM Another common item in houses and offices is the popular Liquid Paper or Wite-out. A secretary named Bette Nesmith Graham invented it in 1956. She used a mixture of white tempera paint that she had at home. She used her formula to correct her typing mistakes in her office and soon many of her co-workers asked her for the magical liquid. She patented her formula and called it Liquid Paper. |
| MARK ZUCKERBERG is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. Born in White Plains, New York, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched the Facebook social networking service from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes | |
| JOHN PEMBERTON In May 1886, Dr. John S. Pemberton wrote a formula for a headache remedy which he at first called Pemberton’s French Wine Coca. Pemberton thought his drink did not have the healing properties he envisioned, so later he sold his drink to a group of businessmen for them to sell as a drink to quench people’s thirst. FrankRobinson,whohadworkedwith Pemberton, designed the logo and the script name. He also added the phrase delicious and refreshing that goes with every Coca-Cola advertisement. | |
| PRINTING PRESS | JOHANNES GUTEMBERG was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: |
| ALEXANDER FLEMING A Scottish researcher, is credited with the discovery of penicillin in 1928. At the time, Fleming was experimenting with the influenza virus in the Laboratory of the Inoculation Department at St. Mary's Hospital in London. | |
| MOTOR CAR | KARL BENZ Better known as Karl Benz or Carl Benz, he was a German engineer and inventor, known for creating the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886, considered the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. |
| GLUCOSE TEST | HELEN MURRAY The most important of these was a “dip-and-read” test that, for the first time, allowed diabetics to monitor their blood glucose level instantly and at home. By 1975, Free had earned seven patents for her improvements in medical and clinical urinalysis testing. |
| FIRST AIRPLANE on December 17, 1903 | Wright Brothers were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. |
| Louis Braille was a French pedagogue who designed a reading and writing system for people with visual disabilities in 1824 | |
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Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating the first liquid-fuel rocket, successfully launched on March 16, 1926. |
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