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  • Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor, and innovator. He emigrated to Canada in 1870 and ...
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  • tampons). He is also credited as being the inventor of the soap opera, with being responsible for the fact that radio (and television after it) is an ...
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  • Richardson is widely considered to be the inventor of the epistolary novel—that is, a novel written in the form of a collection of letters ...
    11 KB (1,688 words) - 03:01, 23 December 2022
  • were granted without examination since inventor's right was considered ... given away, or simply abandoned. If an inventor obtains a patent on improvements ...
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  • was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses ...
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  • Though Galileo is often said to be the inventor of the thermometer, what ... However, each inventor and each thermometer was unique—there was ...
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  • Censorship always followed Michelangelo, once described as "inventor delle porcherie" ("inventor of obscenities," in the ...
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  • mayor Joseph Medill; his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. His elder brother was slated to take over the family newspaper ...
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  • October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test. Together with his collaborator, Theodore Simon, Binet ...
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  • He was a first cousin twice removed of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin. Sherman's mother Mehitable Wellington and Whitney's ...
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  • Louis, daughter of a construction engineer and inventor, John Milton Moore, and his wife, Mary Warner. She grew up in the household of her grandfather ...
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  • were many. He became known as the inventor of the Louis XIV Style and also gave direction to the national tendencies which endured centuries ...
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  • twenty years previously, and that he had met the inventor. Based on this evidence, Redi credited another Dominican monk, Fra Alessandro da Spina of ...
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  • financial publications in the world, the inventor of the Dow Jones industrial average and the proponent of Dow Theory, Dow’s contributions ...
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  • the diode law (named after transistor co-inventor William Bradford Shockley ... Zener of Southern Illinois University, inventor of the device. ...
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  • write a lengthy monograph on his hero, the artist/inventor Leonardo da Vinci, and every day of his adult life he would write incredibly learned entries ...
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  • 敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed ...
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  • Goths, missionary, translator of the Bible, and inventor of the first Gothic alphabet. He was probably descended from Christians of Anatolia who were ...
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  • Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and inventor, best known as the co-founder ...
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  • found. The Han Dynasty astronomer and inventor Zhang Heng (78 - 139 C.E ... nothing new. The Chinese astronomer and inventor Zhang Heng (78-139 C.E. ...
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