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Famous Scientists & Inventors

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Scientists and inventors and their landmark discoveries.

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  1. 1Who invented the telephone?
    Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), UK/Canada/US
  2. 2Who invented the light bulb?
    Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), US - commercially practical incandescent light bulb
  3. 3Who invented the phonograph?
    Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), US
  4. 4Who invented the automobile?
    Karl Benz (1844-1929), Germany - the petrol-powered automobile
  5. 5Who co-invented the airplane?
    The Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright)
  6. 6Who invented the World Wide Web?
    Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), UK, with Robert Cailliau
  7. 7Who invented the computer mouse?
    Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013), US
  8. 8Who invented the transistor?
    John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, and William Shockley
  9. 9Who invented the microprocessor?
    Federico Faggin (born 1941), Italy
  10. 10Who invented the laser and maser?
    Nikolay Basov (1922-2001), Russia (co-inventor)
  11. 11Who invented holography?
    Dennis Gabor (1900-1979), Hungarian-British
  12. 12Who invented the ballpoint pen?
    László Bíró (1899-1985), Hungary
  13. 13Who invented the windshield wiper blade?
    Mary Anderson (1866-1953), US
  14. 14Who invented instant noodles?
    Momofuku Ando (1910-2007), Japan
  15. 15Who invented Braille?
    Louis Braille (1809-1852), France - Braille writing system
  16. 16Who invented the dishwasher?
    Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), US
  17. 17Who invented the refrigerator?
    William Cullen (1710-1790), UK - first artificial refrigerator
  18. 18Who invented canning (food preservation)?
    Nicolas Appert (1749-1841), France - using glass bottles
  19. 19Who invented flash freezing?
    Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956), US
  20. 20Who invented the thermos flask?
    James Dewar (1842-1923), UK - vacuum flask
  21. 21Who invented penicillin?
    Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Scotland
  22. 22Who invented insulin extraction technique?
    Frederick Banting (1891-1941), Canada
  23. 23Who invented the X-ray?
    Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923), Germany
  24. 24Who invented portable X-ray units ('Little Curies')?
    Marie Curie (1867-1934), Poland
  25. 25Who invented MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
    Raymond Damadian (1936-2022), Armenia/US
  26. 26Who invented the electrocardiogram (EEG)?
    Willem Einthoven (1860-1927), The Netherlands
  27. 27Who invented the Apgar score for newborn babies?
    Virginia Apgar (1909-1974), US
  28. 28Who invented the first practical pneumatic tyre?
    John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921), UK
  29. 29Who invented the three-point seat belt?
    Nils Bohlin (1920-2002), Sweden
  30. 30Who invented the diesel engine?
    Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), Germany

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