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Karl Ludwig Nessler was born on 2 May 1872 in Todtnau. He was the son of Rosina (née Laitner) and Bartholomäus Nessler, a cobbler in Todtnau, a small town located high in the Black Forest, just beneath the Feldberg. He reportedly conceived the idea of a permanent wave early on.
An early alternative method for curling hair that was suitable for use on people was invented in 1905 by German hairdresser Karl Nessler. [5] He used a mixture of cow urine and water. The first public demonstration took place on 8 October 1905, but Nessler had been working on the idea since 1896.
Werner von Siemens invented the first electric elevator. Electric chainsaw. 1831–1834: Wire rope by Wilhelm Albert [195] [196] 1858: Hoffmann kiln by Friedrich Hoffmann [197] 1880: The world's first electric elevator by Werner von Siemens [198] 1895: Electrically driven hand drill by Carl and Wilhelm Fein in Stuttgart [199]
Karl Nessler: Inventor of the permanent wave. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow: Technician and inventor, the "spiritual father" of the core element of first generation television technology. Emmy Noether: Mathematician. Groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics (Noether's theorem). Considered by many as the most influential ...
Electric power transmission, the tools and means of moving electricity far from where it is generated, date back to the late 19th century. They include the movement of electricity in bulk (formally called "transmission") and the delivery of electricity to individual customers ("distribution"). In the beginning, the two terms were used ...
The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...
The phonograph becomes faster and more convenient due to an electric motor. The electric motor brings on the first juke box with cylinders – even before flat disk records were widely available. Thomas Edison discovers thermionic emission. This effect forms the basis for the vacuum tube and the cathode ray tube.
Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004), U.S. – electric pH meter; Vladimir Bekhterev (1857–1927), Russia – Bekhterev's Mixture; Josip Belušić (1847–1905), Croatia – electric speedometer; Michael Bell (born 1938), together with Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling device for reuse of shower and sink water in the home