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Imran Chaudhri (1973– ) invented the user interface and interactions of the iPhone, also worked on the Mac, iPod, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch; John Clark (1785-1853) invented the first automated poetry generator, The Eureka, and patented a method to waterproof fabric for air beds and air cushions in 1813.
Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine [23] Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain. Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines [24]
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
Ányos Jedlik (1800–1898), Hungary – Jedlik dynamo Alec John Jeffreys (born 1950), UK – DNA profiling (forensics) Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934), U.S. – television and movie projector (Phantoscope)
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
March 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson (died 1919), American inventor. April 9 – Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (died 1930), British-born electrical engineer and inventor; May 23 – Otto Lilienthal (died 1896), German aviation pioneer. June 12 – Albertina Carlsson (died 1930) Swedish zoologist. June 22 – William Macewen (died 1924), Scottish ...
first six-coupled steam locomotive and inventor of the Gölsdorf axle system [1] [2] [3] Louis Adolf Gölsdorf: Gepäcklokomotive: John Haswell: first steam brake, sheet steel firebox [1] Hugo Lentz: inventor of award-winning improvements to steam engines, e.g. steam valve gear with oscillating and rotating cams to actuate poppet valves [1] [3 ...
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...