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  • become his mentor as well. Naismith was the inventor of basketball and the first basketball coach at Kansas. In the Fall of 1937, he took a psychology ...
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  • William Sachs, a prosperous manufacturer and inventor. Sachs grew up in Tiergarten, a fashionable section of town, with her parents. She was educated ...
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  • tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist ... father of differential psychology, the inventor of fingerprint identification ...
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  • * Inventor of the Week Archive: The Digital Compact Disc Massachusetts Institute of Technology. == External links == All links retrieved November ...
    12 KB (1,812 words) - 10:36, 11 March 2023
  • under the guidance of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of the process. [[Image:Weber.jpg|right|frame|Carl Maria von Weber]] In 1800, the family ...
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  • Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age ... in the city of Lund, in 1716. The Swedish inventor Christopher Polhem, who ...
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  • grating was made around 1785 by Philadelphia inventor David Rittenhouse, who strung hairs between two finely threaded screws. This was similar to notable ...
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  • Mikimoto Kōkichi (御木本 幸吉. Japanese); (March 10, 1858 – September 21, 1954) was a Japanese pearl farmer, inventor of the cultured ...
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  • Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the star pupil ...
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  • *Dave Boggs, co-inventor of Ethernet *John Cioffi, father of DSL (broad ... *Ted Hoff, inventor of the microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, ...
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  • Fresnel is perhaps best known as the inventor of the Fresnel lens, first adopted in lighthouses while he was a French commissioner of lighthouses ...
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  • created in China around 180 C.E. by the prolific inventor Ting Huan (丁緩). Driven by convection, Ting Huan's device hung over a lamp. The rising ...
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  • In this context, Enlil was also known as the inventor of the pickaxe/hoe (favorite tool of the Sumerians) who caused plants to grow and mankind ...
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  • came in 1920, when he investigated Charles Ponzi, inventor of the fraudulent Ponzi scheme, for the Boston Post. His aggressive questioning and common ...
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  • 2145-4244-93e7-428d15bc8d0a.aspx The Inventor of the Cloth Mother] NZZ ... 2145-4244-93e7-428d15bc8d0a.aspx The Inventor of the Cloth Mother] NZZ ...
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  • | caption = Mechanical Engineer and Inventor | birth_date = June 9, 1781 ... htm George Stephenson: Inventor of the Steam Locomotive Engine ]. ...
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  • but when he heard about the accomplishments of an inventor of the "telharmonium," Busoni was overwhelmed. He saw the need for a new vision in ...
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  • a musician, but a brilliant mechanic and inventor. While working at the melodeon ... (Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein―the inventor of organ stops with free ...
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  • hydrogen instead of oxygen. He was also an inventor, and the mentor of Michael Faraday, who for many years was Davy’s assistant and whose researches ...
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  • to obtain) are means for the breeder or inventor to obtain financial reward for developing a new cultivar (Gepts 2004). With plants produced by ...
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