INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS
Thomas Alva Edison The phonograph
E. Berliner The gramophone
Professor David Edward Hughes The microphone
John L. Baird Television
Evangelista Torricelli The barometer
Galileo Galilei The thermometer and the telescope
Janssen The microscope
William Gascoigne The micrometer
John Harrison The chronometer
Laennec The stethoscope
Sir David Brewster The kaleidoscope
Orville and Wilbur Wrig The aeroplane
Count Von Ferdinand Zeppelin The Zepplin dirigible airship
Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel Dynamite
Roger Bacon Gunpowder
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim The automatic gun
Samuel Colt The revolver
Sir Joseph Whitworth The Whitworth rifle
Elias Howe The sewing-machine
James Watt The steam engine
George Stephenson The locomotive
James Nasmyth The steam hammer
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons The steam turbine
Marchase Gulielimo Marconi The wireless telegraph
Micheal Faraday The dynamo and electric transformer
Messrs Coke and Wheatstone The electric telegraph
Benjamin Franklin The lighting conductor
Robert Stephenson The flashing system of the throwing
light out to sea from lighthouses
Sir Humphrey Davy The safety lamp
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan The incandescent electric lamp
The autotype process of photography
The art of making rapid dry
Photographic plates
George Eastman The roll photographic film
The Kodak camera
Alois Senefelder Lithography
Johann Gutenberg The art of painting
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof Esperanto
Samuel Finley Morse The Morse Code of signals
The Morse system of electric
Telegraph
Gerhardus Mercator A celestial and a terrestrial globe
Sir Richard Arkwright The spinning frame
Samuel Crompton The spinning mule
James Hargreaves The spinning jenny
Sir Henry Bessemer The process of converting cast-iron
Into steel
John Macadam Macadamised roads
Henry Cort The process known as “ puddling” for
Converting pig iron into malleable
Iron
The Marquis De Vauban Income Tax