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Aurel Persu (1890–1977), Romania – first aerodynamic car, aluminum body with wheels included under the body, 1922; Vladimir Petlyakov (1891–1942), Russia – heavy bomber; Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), Germany – Petri dish; Peter Petroff (1919–2004), Bulgaria – digital wrist watch, heart monitor, weather instruments
Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) invented the salt print and calotype photographic processes J.J. Thomson (1856–1940), mass spectrometer Jethro Tull (1674–1740), horse-drawn seed drill
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society [9] Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press [10] James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts [11]
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
1900 Electron holography [471] 2012 Mária Telkes * 1900 Solar thermal storage system [472] 2013 Alfred Loomis: 1887 Long range navigation system (LORAN) [473] 2013 Andrew Viterbi: 1935 Code-division multiple access (CDMA) [474] 2013 Aran Safir: 1926 Iris recognition algorithm [475] 2013 Arthur Ashkin: 1922 Optical trapping [476] 2013 Donald ...
Harper Rose (played by Annie Ilonzeh) a drifter and opportunistic con artist who first appears as a person of interest when she tries to independently double-cross both a drug cartel and The Brotherhood. At the end of the episode "Skip", it is revealed that The Machine is starting to anonymously use her as an asset.
Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .