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Athanasius Kircher The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher was an authentic scientific superstar in his time, honored with the title “master […]
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: Charles Labofish It seems Charles Schachan Labofish was from a German Jewish family, but he was born in Odessa, Russian […]
: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr Baron von Leibniz (the inventor of the Stepped Reckoner and a dreamer for a […]
: Heinrich Kummer The information for Kummer in Russian sources is very scanty. It is mentioned only that he was a […]
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: Semyon Korsakov Semyon Nikolaevich Korsakov (Russian: Семён Николаевич Корсаков) was born on 14 January 1787, in Kherson, modern Ukraine (then […]
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Wolfgang von Kempelen What is behind the person, who created two hotly debated technical sensations from the late XVIII century — […]
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: William Hopkins William Wallace Hopkins was born on 16 November 1850, in Boone County, Indiana, USA, to Albert Hopkins (1818-1905) […]
: Who was Jack Kilby? Jack Kilby, an engineer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for physics (along with Robert Noyce) […]
: Lewis Montgomery Hosea Lewis Montgomery Hosea was born on 16 December 1842, in Montgomery, Alabama, to Robert Hosea (1811-1906), a […]
: Who was Karel Čapek? Karel Čapek was a critic, playwright, and novelist who wrote science fiction before it was officially a […]
: Who was Thomas Hill? Thomas Hill was an inventor, clergyman, scientist, educator, and university professor. From the halls of Harvard […]
: Henry Alonzo House Henry Alonzo House was a prolific American inventor and businessman who developed machinery and processes that have […]
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: Hillerin de Boistissandeau The French mathematician and inventor Jean-Baptiste Laurent de Hillerin de La Touche de Boistissandeau was born […]
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Herman Hollerith Herman Hollerith was born on 29 February 1860, in Buffalo, New York. He was the youngest of six […]
: Curt Herzstark Curt (Kurt) Herzstark (the inventor of the remarkable Curta calculator) was born on 26 January 1902 in Vienna. […]
: Philipp Matthaus Hahn Already in his lifetime, the German vicar Philipp Matthäus Hahn was known in church circles through his […]
: Christel Hamann Christian (sobriquet Christel) Bernhard Julius Hamann was born on 27 February 1870, in Hammelwarden, near Oldenburg, Germany, to […]
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Who was William Henry Hart? William Henry Hart was an inventor, watchmaker, jewelry store owner, and proud incorporator of the […]
Rene Grillet de Roven Little is known about René Grillet de Roven (see the calculating machine of René Grillet), Sieur […]
Emery Manville Hamilton was born on 22 January 1838, in Alfred, Allegany County, New York. He was the second child […]
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George Phineas Gordon George Phineas Gordon was born on 21 April 1810, in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had […]
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Emanuel Goldberg on the pages of Life magazine, 1943 Emanuel Goldberg In the 1920s the German scientist Emanuel Goldberg of Zeiss […]
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Christian Ludwig Gersten (Johänn) Christian Ludwig Gersten (or Gerstein) was born on 7 February 1701, in Gießen, a town in […]
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Frederick Fuller Frederick Lincoln Fuller was born on 11 April 1861, in Norwich, Conn. He was the first son of […]
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George Barnard Grant The American George Barnard Grant was born in Farmingdale, Gardiner, Maine, on 21 December 1849, as the […]
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Who was Douglas Engelbart? Douglas Engelbart was an internet and computer pioneer. A visionary, Engelbart is responsible for many of […]
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Dorr Eugene Felt (right) and his sponsor Robert Tarrant also shared an interest in fishing Dorr Eugene Felt Dorr Eugene Felt […]
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Edmund Dana Barbour (Source: Harvard University Archives, HUGFP 125.32, Box 1, Folder Barbour) Edmund Dana Barbour Edmund Dana Barbour, the youngest […]
Innovation and invention abounded throughout the 1800s. Countless men and women of all sorts of different backgrounds and disciplines […]
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Who was Thomas Harold Flowers Thomas Harold Flowers is the technical genius who created the world’s second electronic computer (after […]
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Cathrinus Collett Cathrinus Nikolay (also spelled Nicolai or Nikolai) Arbo Collett was born on 30 March 1841, in Buskerud hovedgård […]
James “Jimmie” Lewis Dalton was born December 28, 1866, on Dalton Farm, a homestead near Ponder, in Ripley County, […]
Who was Thomas de Colmar Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur renowned for developing, patenting, […]
He replaced a vexatious battery-powered intercom system in one of his father’s high-rise apartment buildings with an electrical system at […]
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Samuel Comfort Samuel Comfort Jr., son of George and Susan (nee Lower) Comfort, grandson of Samuel and Rebecca (Moon) Comfort, […]
Who Was Vannevar Bush? Vannevar Bush was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and science administrator. He was the leader of […]
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Who was Orlando Lane Castle? Orlando Lane Castle was a metaphysician, mathematician, logician, and an excellent teacher. He patented numerous […]
Not a whole lot is known of the life of the French Huguenot César Caze, sieur d’Harmonville et du […]
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Gilbert Warren Chapin Gilbert Warren Chapin was born on 1 August 1847, in Springfield, Mass., to Joel Chapin and Amelia […]
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Claude Chappe Claude Chappe was born on Christmas day (25 December) 1763, in the small French town of Brûlon, some […]
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Who Was Tito Livio Burattini? The Italian Tito Livio Burattini was a skilled architect, astronomer, mathematician, optician, mechanic, and inventor. […]
Jabez Burns Early Life Jabez Burns was born in London on 12 February 1826, as sthe econd child in the family […]
Who was Lee Burridge? Lee Burridge was an inventor, manufacturer, and one of the typewriter inventors. Early life Lee Burridge was born […]
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Who Was William S. Burroughs? William S. Burroughs was an American inventor. He was born in Rochester, NY on January […]
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Who Was Léon Bollée? Léon Bollée was a notable French automobile inventor and manufacturer. He was born into the Amédée-Ernest […]
Early Life Jan Józef Baranowski was born on 7 September 1805, in Śmiłowiczach (now Смілавічы, Беларус), in the family of […]
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