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Key Points: Who Was Ramon Llull? Ramon Llull (pronunciation: rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ) is a polymath who was best known for his work as […]
: Athanasius Kircher The prominent German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) (see biography of Athanasius Kircher) was a famous 17th-century scholar, […]
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: Gottfried Leibniz The great German polymath Gottfried Leibniz (see biography of Leibniz) was one of the first men (after Ramon […]
: Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knaus(s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician, and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms that could, […]
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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 […]
: 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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Giovanni Fontana More than half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript […]
Euphonia The German Joseph Faber, born around 1800 in Freiburg Breisgau, near Schwarzwald, came at a young age to Vienna, […]
Who Was Heron (Hero) of Alexandria? The Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria was active in his native city […]
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 […]
Karel Capek The robot word was conceived at the beginning of 1920 by the Czech writer and playwright Karel Čapek […]
Ctesibius Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient […]
Emile Baudot The first widely adopted device to encode letters, numbers, and symbols as uniform-length binary sequences was the multiplexed […]
Basile Bouchon The first industrial application of a semi-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century by a modest […]
L Frank Baum In 1901 the famous American author Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) published a 245-page illustrated novel, The Master […]
Samuel Butler was an English novelist who is best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. […]
Who was Samuel Young? Samuel Young was a man who lived in the mid-1850s and started his life working as […]
Eugène Jacot des Combes Yet another Parisian watchmaker (after Ernest-Narcisse Lobbé) invented an early keyboard adder in the 1850s — Eugène […]
Elizur Wright In the 1860s, Elizur Wright (see the biography of Elizur Wright), an American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described […]
Ezra Edgar Witter Ezra Edgar Witter was a holder of many (at least 15) US and Canadian patents between 1888 […]
About Charles Webb The American poet, author, journalist, and inventor Charles Henry Webb was a fascinating person. Born on January […]
During the age of invention, some ideas were simply too big and too great to be contained by one […]
