World-changing inventions have revolutionized the way we live our lives today. In the past 300 years, mankind’s ingenuity has seen the human race leap through the Industrial Revolution and soar into a scientific era of breakthroughs and discoveries. Radio, central heating, toilets – these are but some of the countless inventions that have transformed our lives.
Who made these discoveries? And what led them to their breakthroughs? Meet the brilliant, eccentric, and occasionally erratic minds behind these inventions that show you don’t need to be the smartest person in the room – just the most passionate!
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Meet the Great Inventors
Percy Spencer (Microwave)
John Fitch (Steamboat)
John J. Loud (Ballpoint Pen)
Frank J. Canova (Smartphone)
Igor Sikorsky (Helicopter)
Edward Jenner (Vaccines)
Vinton Cerf (the Internet)
Philo Farnsworth (Television)
James Naismith (Basketball)
William Higinbotham (Video Games)
Raymond Tomlinson (Email)
Blaise Pascal (Calculator)
Charles Goodyear (Rubber)
Carl Friedrich Benz (Automobiles)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (Camera)
Peter Henlein (Watch)
Felix Hoffmann (Aspirin)
Willis Haviland Carrier (Air Conditioning)
William Strutt (Central Heating)
Sir John Harington (Toilet)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (X-Rays)
William Lowe (Personal Computer)
Gabriel Mouton (Metric System)
Anders Celsius (Celsius Temperature Scale)
Guglielmo Marconi (Radio)
Samuel Colt (Revolver)
Nikola Tesla (AC Motor)
Isaac Newton (Scientific Method & Calculus)
Casimir Funk (Kazimierz Funk) (Vitamins)
Federico Faggin (Microprocessor & Touchscreen)
Nicolas-Jacques Conté (Pencil)
Eadweard Muybridge (Movies)
Alexander Fleming (Penicillin)
Johannes Gutenberg (Printing Press)
Alexander Graham Bell (Telephone)
Orville & Wilbur Wright (Airplane)
Benjamin Franklin (Lightning Rod)
Thomas Edison (Lightbulb)
Richard Trevithick (Train)
Pope Gregory XIII (Gregorian Calendar)
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