Who are the most Famous Investors in History? New Invention Website: Who-Invented.org
New survey reviewing the most famous inventors in the world.
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 15, 2005 -- Who-Invented Org (http://www.who-invented.org) just launched a new invention
article site dedicated to inventors learning more about the process of
inventing, reviewing the famous inventors of the past and encouraging them to
enhance their invention process.
Invention Article #3: Famous
Inventions;
http://www.who-invented.org/famous-inventions.html
The
top ten most famous inventors and their inventions are as follows:
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), the first great invention developed by Thomas
Edison was the tin foil phonograph. A prolific producer, Edison is also known
for his work with light bulbs, electricity, film and audio devices, and much
more.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1869), in 1876, at the age of 29,
Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. Among one of his first innovations
after the telephone was the photo phone, a device that enabled sound to be
transmitted on a beam of light.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was
an agricultural chemist who invented three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds
more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes and changed the history of
agriculture in the south.
Eli Whitney (1765-1825) invented the cotton gin
in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds, hulls and other
unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked.
Johannes
Gutenberg (1394-1468) was a German goldsmith and inventor best known for the
Gutenberg press, an innovative printing machine that used movable
type.
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) is remembered as the inventor of
mechanical television. Baird also patented inventions related to radar and fiber
optics.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) invented the lightning rod, the
iron furnace stove or Franklin Stove, bifocal glasses, and the
odometer.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) improved the "assembly line" for
automobile manufacturing, received a patent for a transmission mechanism, and
popularized the gas-powered car with the Model-T.
James Naismith
(1861-1939) was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball
in 1891.
Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented a punch-card tabulation
machine system for statistical computation.
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