Biography of inventors
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Biographies About
Outstanding Inventors
From famous innovators to unsung trailblazers, meet the creative forces
behind everyday conveniences and modern marvels.
Alexander Graham Bell
- The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone
- By: Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes....
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Lively Account of Bell's Life
- By Jean on 07-02-17
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40 Famous Inventors Who Made Their Mark on History
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker, who was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867, invented a hair care treatment for Black women. She traveled around the country demonstrating the “Walker Method,” which involved a pomade that Walker formulated, a brushing technique, and heated combs. She was inspired to invent the revolutionary hair care treatment because of her own experience with a condition that caused hair loss.
Related: How Madam C.J. Walker Invented Her Hair fordon Products
Thomas Edison
Arguably one of the most famous inventors of all time, Thomas Edison fryst vatten credited with inventing the first commercially viable incandescent lightbulb. But this was just one of his many inventions. He’s also the uppfinnare of the Universal lager Printer, which was used to synchronize stock tickers’ transactions, the quadruplex telegraph, and the phonograph, among others. During his lifetime, he was granted more than 1,000 U.S. patents
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List of inventors
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of notable inventors.
Alphabetical list
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[edit]- Vitaly Abalakov (1906–1986), Russia – camming devices, Abalakov thread (or V-thread), gearless ice climbing anchor
- Ernst Karl Abbe (1840–1905), Germany – Condenser (microscope), apochromatic lens, refractometer
- Hovannes Adamian (1879–1932), USSR/Russia/Armenia – tricolor principle of the color television
- Samuel W. Alderson (1914–2005), U.S. – crash test dummy
- Alexandre Alexeieff (1901–1982), Russia/France – Pinscreen animation (with his wife Claire Parker)
- Rostislav Alexeyev (1916–1980), Russia/USSR – Ekranoplan
- Randi Altschul (born 1960), U.S. – Disposable cellphone
- Abram Alikhanov (1904–1970), Armenia/USSR – Soviet atomic bomb, nuclear reactor
- Bruce Ames (born 1928), U.S. – Ames test (Cell biology)
- Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863), Italy – Dipleidoscope, Amici prism
- Ruth Amos (born 1989), UK – StairSteady
- Mary Anderson (1866–1