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National Academy of Sciences Benjamin Franklin, one of the first early American scientists Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone in Fort Myers, Florida, February 11, 1929. In the early decades of its history, the United States was relatively isolated from Europe and also rather poor.
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).
As a scientist, his studies of electricity made him a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics. He also charted and named the Gulf Stream current. His numerous important inventions include the lightning rod , bifocals , glass harmonica and the Franklin stove . [ 8 ]
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
Linus Carl Pauling FRS (/ ˈ p ɔː l ɪ ŋ / PAW-ling; February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) [4] was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. [ 5 ]
American inventor and aeronautics pioneer [13] Henry Beachell: 1906–2006: 100: American developer of "miracle rice" [14] Wilfried de Beauclair: 1912–2020: 108: Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist [15] Arnold Orville Beckman: 1900–2004: 104: American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments [16] Bei Shizhang ...