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Key Points Jacob-Rodrigues Pereira Jacob-Rodrigues Pereira, better known as Pereire, was born in Berlanga, Extremadura, Spain (or in Peniche, Portugal, according to […]
Claude Perrault Claude Perrault (see the calculating machine of Perrault) was born in Paris on 25 September 1613, in the […]
Who Was Blaise Pascal? Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs […]
Who Was Maxwell Newman? Originally called Hermann Alexander Neumann before applying for a change of surname, Maxwell Newman was a […]
Who Was Robert Noyce? Robert Noyce was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman. He made a massive impact on the […]
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La Verne Noyes La Verne W. Noyes was born on 7 January 1849, in Genoa, New York, in the house […]
Who Was John Ballou Newbrough? John Ballou Newbrough is a 33rd-degree Mason, vegetarian, and an avid student of the world’s […]
John Napier John Napier (John Napier frequently signed his name “Jhone Neper, Fear of Merchiston”, but later on we can […]
Who was Samuel Morland? Samuel Morland was an English academic, inventor, mathematician, diplomat, and spy. He lived in the 17th […]
Fabrizio Mordente Fabrizio Mordente Fabrizio Mordente was born in 1532 in Salerno, a town in Campania (southwestern Italy). Until 1552 he studied […]
Johann Helfrich von Muller Johann Helfrich von Müller was born in Cleve (a town in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia […]
Who Was John Mauchly? John William Mauchly was an American physicist who designed the ENIAC. ENIAC is popularly regarded as […]
Some people learn to develop skills as inventors, scientists, mathematicians, or mechanical engineers over years of schooling and training. […]
Leonardo da Vinci The Uomo Universale of the Italian Renaissance and possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history—Leonardo […]
Who Was Newman Marshman? Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is […]
Athanasius Kircher The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher was an authentic scientific superstar in his time, honored with the title “master […]
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: Heinrich Kummer The information for Kummer in Russian sources is very scanty. It is mentioned only that he was a […]
: 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 […]
: 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 […]
Wolfgang von Kempelen What is behind the person, who created two hotly debated technical sensations from the late XVIII century — […]
