As the world evolved, many great people took time to invent things and ways to make life easier for everyone; below are a few of them:
HOVHANNES (IVAN) (February 1879,
Baku - 12 September 1932,)
was an
Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental
color
television was shown in
London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle, and he
is recognized as one of the founders of
color
television.
MARY
ANDERSON (1866–1953) was a real
estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor
of the windshield wiper
blade. In November 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled
inside the car, called the windshield wiper.
EDWIN HOWARD ARMSTRONG(December
18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American
electrical engineer and
inventor.
He has been called "the most prolific and influential inventor in radio
history".
He invented the
regenerative circuit while he was an
undergraduate and
patented
it in 1914, followed by the super-regenerative circuit in 1922, and the
super heterodyne receiver in 1918.
Armstrong was also the inventor of modern
frequency modulation (FM) radio
transmission.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL(March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an
eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with
inventing the first practical
telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all
been associated with work on
elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf,
profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech
further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated
in Bell being awarded the first
US patent for the telephone in 1876. In
retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real
work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. Many other inventions marked Bell's later life,
including groundbreaking work in
optical telecommunications,
hydrofoils
and
aeronautics.
In 1888, Bell became one of the founding members of the
National Geographic Society.
He has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history.
KARL FRIEDRICH BENZ (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine
designer and car engineer,
generally regarded as the inventor
of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha
Benz pioneering founder of the
automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb
Daimler and Wilhelm
Maybach working as partners, also worked on
similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but
Benz patented his work first, and, subsequently patented all the
processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879 his first engine
patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first
automobile.
SIR TIMOTHY JOHN "TIM" BERNERS-LEE,
OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as "
TimBL,"
is a British
computer scientist, best known as the inventor
of the
World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an
information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first
successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client
and server via the Internet sometime around mid November.
BÍRÓ LÁSZLÓ JÓZSEF(surname placed first per Hungarian convention) (
Spanish:
Ladislao José Biro)
(29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was the
inventor
of the modern
ballpoint pen. Bíró was born in
Budapest,
Hungary
in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International
Fair in 1931. While working as a journalist in Hungary, he noticed that the ink
used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and
smudge-free. He tried using the same ink in a
fountain pen
but found that it would not flow into the tip, as it was too viscous. Working
with his brother György, a
chemist, he developed a new tip consisting of a ball that was
free to turn in a socket, and as it turned it would pick up ink from a
cartridge and then roll to deposit it on the paper. Bíró patented the invention
in Paris in 1938.
CAI LUN(ca. 50 AD – 121),
courtesy name
Jingzhong, was a
Chinese eunuch. He is traditionally regarded as the
inventor
of
paper
and the
paper making
process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to
Egyptian papyrus).
Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), he
was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of
paper-making by adding essential new materials into its composition.
PHILIP H. DIEHL (January 29, 1847 – April 7, 1913) was a
German-
American
mechanical
engineer
and
inventor
who held several U.S.
patents, including
electric
incandescent lamps,
electric
motors for
sewing machines and other uses, and
ceiling fans.
Diehl was a contemporary of
Thomas Edison and his inventions caused Edison
to reduce the price of his incandescent bulb.
REGINALD AUBREY FESSENDEN(October
6, 1866 – July 22, 1932), a naturalized American citizen born in Quebec,
Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions
of voice and music. In his later career he received hundreds of patents for devices in fields such as high-powered transmitting, sonar, and television.
ADOLF GASTON EUGEN FICK(February 22, 1852,
Marburg–February
11, 1937,
Herrsching am Ammersee) was a
German
ophthalmologist
who invented the
contact lens. He was the nephew of the German
physiologist
Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German
anatomy professor
Franz Ludwig Fick.Adolf Fick was actually raised in the family of
his uncle after the premature death of his father, anatomy professor Ludwig
Fick. He studied medicine in Würzburg, Zürich, Marburg und Freiburg. In 1887 he constructed and fitted what was to be
considered the first successful model of a contact lens: an
afocal
scleral
contact shell made from heavy brown glass, which he tested first on
rabbits, then
on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. It was considered the
first successful model of a contact lens. His idea was advanced independently
by several innovators in the years that followed.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON(4
August 1561 – 20 November 1612), of Kelston, was a courtier, author and
master of art, popularly known as the inventor of the
flush toilet.
He became a prominent member of
Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known
as her "saucy Godson". But because of his poetry and other writings,
he fell in and out of favour with the Queen.
ALEKSANDR GRIGORYEVICH LORAN(Russian1849 – after 1911), sometimes called Alexander Laurant
or Aleksandr Lovan or Aleksandr Lavrentyev, was a Russian teacher
and inventor of fire fighting foam
and foam extinguisher. He
was born in 1849 in Kishinyov
in the Russian Empire,
now in Moldavia. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg
Polytechnical Institute, he
continued his education in Paris,
where he studied chemistry. Returning
to Russia, Loran became a teacher in a school in Baku, which was the main center of the Russian oil
industry at that time. Impressed by the
terrible and hardly extinguishable oil fires that he had seen there, Loran
tried to find such a liquid substance that could deal effectively with the
problem. So he invented fire fighting foam,
which was successfully tested in several experiments in 1902-1903. In 1904 Loran patented his invention, and developed the
first foam extinguisher
the same year.Subsequently
he founded a company called Eurica, based in Saint Petersburg, and
started to sell his fire extinguishers under that brand.
JOHN STITH PEMBERTON (July
8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran
and an American pharmacist,
and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola. Imagine
a world without Coca-Cola.
Which invention is most valuable to you? Please leave your comments.
KARL FRIEDRICH BENZ (November 25, 1844 – April 4, 1929) was a German engine
designer and car engineer,
generally regarded as the inventor
of the gasoline-powered automobile, and together with Bertha
Benz pioneering founder of the
automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. Other German contemporaries, Gottlieb
Daimler and Wilhelm
Maybach working as partners, also worked on
similar types of inventions, without knowledge of the work of the other, but
Benz patented his work first, and, subsequently patented all the
processes that made the internal combustion engine feasible for use in an automobile. In 1879 his first engine
patent was granted to him and in 1886 Benz was granted a patent for his first
automobile.
JOHN STITH PEMBERTON (July
8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran
and an American pharmacist,
and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola. Imagine
a world without Coca-Cola.
