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Lawn sprinkler – invented by Elijah McCoy [7] LongPen – invented by Margaret Atwood [31] Parka – invented by the Inuit in the Arctic to protect the wearer from the cold [32] Plexiglas – made practical by William Chalmers' invention for creating methyl methacrylate, while a graduate student at McGill University in 1931
Norman J. W. Thrower (1919–2002), professor at UCLA and author who was known for work in geography, surveying practices, and history; Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developed the first law of geography; Judith Tyner (United States, born 1939), professor emerita of geography at California State University, Long Beach
J. H. Smith (Mayor of Everett), American politician; J. Harold Smith (1910–2001), American Southern Baptist; J. Hubert Smith, American politician from Arizona; Jeffrey H. Smith, American mathematician; Joseph Henry Smith (born 1945), Ghanaian soldier and politician; James H. Smith (physicist), American physicist, see David H. Frisch and 1963 ...
Smith taught English, geography and social studies for over 25 years.he was born on April 24. He achieved national recognition for his method of teaching seventh graders to draw maps from memory. This approach is explained in his curriculum "Mapping the World by Heart."
Harm J. de Blij (see IJ (digraph); closest pronunciation: "duh blay") (October 9, 1935 – March 25, 2014) [1] [2] [3] was a Dutch-American geographer.He was a geography editor on ABC's Good Morning America and an editor of National Geographic magazine and the author of several books, including Why Geography Matters.
Joseph Russell Smith (February 3, 1874 – February 26, 1966) was an American geographer. He worked in the Department of Geography and Industry at the University of Pennsylvania [1] and later the Columbia Business School where he chaired the economic geography program. [2] From 1941 to 1942, he was president of the American Association of ...
Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are ...
J. Alfred Smith (born 1931), American pastor; J. Beverley Smith (born 1931), Welsh historian; J Carington Smith (1908–1972), Australian artist; J. Eric Smith (born 1957), President of Swiss Re Americas