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Key Points Who was Johann Strasser Born Johann Georg Strasser, Johann Strasser was a remarkable Austrian technician, clockmaker, and mechanic who created […]
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: Jonathan Swift, the notable 17th and 18th century Anglo-Irish satirist and author, might not seem like someone who played […]
Who was Thomas Ross? Thomas Ross was an electrochemical expert from the University of Washington. He was among the first […]
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: Calvin Mooers Calvin Northrup Mooers (1919-1994) was an American computer scientist who was an influential figure in the early information […]
Who Was Angela Ruiz Robles? Angela Ruiz Robles (1895-1975) was a Spanish teacher, writer, and the pioneer inventor of the […]
Philon of Byzantion Very little is known about the Greek scientist Philon (ca. 280–220 BC) (sometimes called Philo) of Byzantion […]
Henri Maillardet Around 1800, the Swiss mechanic and clockmaker Henri Maillardet (1745-1830), who worked then in London, created an extraordinary […]
: Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knaus(s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician, and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms that could, […]
: Who Was Ramon Llull? Ramon Llull (pronunciation: rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ) is a polymath who was best known for his work as […]
: Gottfried Leibniz The great German polymath Gottfried Leibniz (see biography of Leibniz) was one of the first men (after Ramon […]
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: Leonardo da Vinci’s Automata: History Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, sculptor, scientist, and architect who embodied the High […]
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Who Was Wolfgang von Kempelen? Wolfgang von Kempelen is a man revered for his inventions that created hot debate in […]
: Who was Pierre Jaquet-Droz Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a Swiss born watchmaker and mechanical genius. His watches and mechanical inventions combined […]
: Friedrich Kaufmann The Kaufmann family from Dresden (see the lower image), Saxony (Johann Gottfried Kaufmann (1751-1818), his son Johann Friedrich […]
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Who Was Joseph Marie Jacquard? Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard was a French weaver who played an important role in the […]
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Who Was Heron (Hero) of Alexandria? The Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria was active in his native city […]
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Giovanni Fontana More than half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript […]
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Who was Thomas Hobbes? Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one […]
Who Was Oliver Evans? Oliver Evans was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and pioneer in the field of automation. He has […]
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Ctesibius Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient […]
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Karel Capek The robot word was conceived at the beginning of 1920 by the Czech writer and playwright Karel Čapek […]
Samuel Butler was an English novelist who is best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. […]
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L Frank Baum In 1901 the famous American author Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) published a 245-page illustrated novel, The Master […]
Emile Baudot The first widely adopted device to encode letters, numbers, and symbols as uniform-length binary sequences was the multiplexed […]
