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25 Cards in this Set
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Francis Beaufort |
Beaufort Scale: wind force scale named after him |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
telephone |
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Karl Benz |
(German) the pretrol powered automobile |
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Tim Berners-Lee |
(English) with Robert Caillliau, the World Wide Web |
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Louis Braille |
(French) the Braille writing system |
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Gottlieb Daimler |
(German) first high-speed internal combustion engine |
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Leonardo Da Vinci |
(Italian) conceptualized a helicopter, painted the Mona Lisa, advanced anatomy, etc. |
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Rudolf Diesel |
(German) first internal-combustion engine using fuel oil instead of gasoline |
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Karl Drais |
(German) bicycle (Draisine) |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
(American) lightbulb, phonograph |
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Albert Einstein |
(German) theory of relativity |
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Douglas Engelbart |
(American) the computer mouse |
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Enrico Fermi |
(Italian) one of the first developers of the nuclear reactor |
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Alexander Fleming |
(English) Penicillin |
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Henry Ford |
(American) developed modern assembly lines for mass production |
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Benjamin Franklin |
(American) Lightening Rod |
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Galileo Galilei |
(Italian) improved the telescope, physicist |
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Johannes Gutenburg |
(German) movable type, printing press |
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Guglielmo Marconi |
(Italian) wireless radio |
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Joseph-Michael Montgolfier |
(French) hot-air balloon |
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Isaac Newton |
(English) reflecting telescope (reduces chromatic aberration) |
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Alfred Nobel |
(Swedish) dynamite |
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen |
(German) the X-Ray machine |
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George Stephenson |
(English) first steam locomotive |
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Eli Whitney |
(American) interchangeable parts, cotton gin |
