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  2. Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Louis Pasteur's scientific discoveries in the 19th century ...

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    Louis Pasteur was a pioneer in chemistry, microbiology, immunology and vaccinology. pictore/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty ImagesSome of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in ...

  6. Centennial Light - Wikipedia

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    [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]

  7. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  8. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    In 1872, Russian Alexander Lodygin invented an incandescent light bulb and obtained a Russian patent in 1874. He used as a burner two carbon rods of diminished section in a glass receiver, hermetically sealed, and filled with nitrogen, electrically arranged so that the current could be passed to the second carbon when the first had been ...

  9. Why Man Creates - Wikipedia

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    The light bulb and steam locomotive are created. Darwin is referred to as two men hit each other with their canes arguing whether man is an animal. The telegraph is invented and psychology created. Next, a small creature hops across the screen saying, "I'm a bug, I'm a germ, I'm a bug, I'm a germ... [indrawn breath] Louis Pasteur. I'm not a bug ...