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Key Points Who was Thomas Ross? Thomas Ross was an electrochemical expert from the University of Washington. He was among the first […]
Henri Maillardet Around 1800, the Swiss mechanic and clockmaker Henri Maillardet (1745-1830), who worked then in London, created an extraordinary […]
Philon of Byzantion – Biography, History, and Inventions Philon of Byzantion Very little is known about the greek scientist Philon (ca. […]
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: Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knaus(s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms which could, […]
: 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 […]
: Who Was Ramon Llull? Ramon Llull (pronunciation: rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ) is a polymath who was best known for his work as […]
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Who Was Wolfgang von Kempelen? Wolfgang von Kempelen is a man revered for his inventions that created hot debate in […]
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Who Was Joseph Marie Jacquard? Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard was a French weaver who played an important role in the […]
: Friedrich Kaufmann The Kaufmann family from Dresden (see the lower image), Saxony (Johann Gottfried Kaufmann (1751-1818), his son Johann Friedrich […]
: Who was Pierre Jaquet-Droz Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a Swiss born watchmaker and mechanical genius. His watches and mechanical inventions combined […]
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Who Was Heron (Hero) of Alexandria? Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria was active in his native city of Alexandria, […]
Giovanni Fontana More then 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 […]
Ctesibius Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient engineering […]
The creators of robot word, Karel Čapek (left), and his brother Josef Čapek (right) Karel Capek The robot word was conceived in […]
Basile Bouchon The first industrial application of a (semi)-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century by a modest […]
Samuel Butler was an English novelist who is best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. […]
L. Frank Baum – Biography, History and Inventions L Frank Baum In 1901 the famous American author Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) […]
Emile Baudot The first widely adopted device to encode letters, numbers, and symbols as uniform-length binary sequences was the multiplexed printing […]
History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Elizur Wright Elizur Wright In 1860s, Elizur Wright (see biography of Elizur Wright), an […]
Ezra Edgar Witter Ezra Edgar Witter was a holder of many (at least 15) US and Canadian patents between 1888 and […]
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History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Jacot des Combes Eugène Jacot des Combes Yet another Parisian watchmaker (after Ernest-Narcisse Lobbé) […]
