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Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.
Louis Pasteur ForMemRS (/ ˈ l uː i p æ ˈ s t ɜːr /, French: [lwi pastœʁ] ⓘ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.
Louis Pasteur: 1822 Pasteurization [28] 1978 Luis Walter Alvarez: 1911 Radar, liquid hydrogen bubble chamber [29] 1979 Charles J. Plank: 1915 Catalytic cracking [30] 1979 Edward J. Rosinski: 1921 Catalytic cracking [31] 1979 Robert H. Goddard: 1882 Solid fuel rockets [32] 1979 Jay Wright Forrester * 1918 Random access memory (RAM) [33] 1980 ...
How the 173-year-old glassmaker behind Edison’s light bulb and iPhone screens became a Silicon Valley darling ... Weeks came back to Corning in 1987 to develop a strategy for specialty glass and ...
1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee. 1841 Arc-lighting is used as experimental public lighting in Paris. 1853 Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents the modern kerosene lamp. 1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler confines the electric arc in a Geissler tube.
[7] [8] [9] The hand-blown, carbon-filament common light bulb was invented by Adolphe Chaillet, a French engineer who filed a patent for this socket technology. [10] It was manufactured in Shelby, Ohio, by the Shelby Electric Company in the late 1890s; [7] many just like it still exist and can be found functioning. [11]
Production of Liquid oxygen by Louis Paul Cailletet in 1877 (at the same time but with another method than Raoul Pictet). [49] Artificial silk by Hilaire de Chardonnet in 1884. [50] Chamberland filter, also known as a Pasteur–Chamberland filter, a porcelain water filter invented by Charles Chamberland in 1884. [51] Fluorine by Henri Moissan ...
1861: Louis Pasteur: Germ theory. 1861: John Tyndall: Experiments in Radiant Energy that reinforced the Greenhouse effect. 1864: James Clerk Maxwell: Theory of electromagnetism. 1865: Gregor Mendel: Mendel's laws of inheritance, basis for genetics. 1865: Rudolf Clausius: Definition of entropy.