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However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. [429] 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph. [430] 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. [431] 1878: Lester Allan Pelton invents the Pelton wheel.
The first person on Hart's list is the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms, being responsible for both the foundations of Islam as well as the Early Muslim conquests uniting the Arabian Peninsula and eventually a wider caliphate after his death.
Ida Rosenthal (1886–1973), Belarus/Russia/U.S. – Bra , the standard of cup sizes, nursing bra, full-figured bra, the first seamed uplift bra (all with her husband William) Sidney Rosenthal (1907–1979), U.S. – Magic Marker; Eugene Roshal (born 1972), Russia – FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver
The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals is a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck, with a foreword written by Chuck Jones.. The book features the fifty greatest cartoons of all time, selected by a group of 1000 cartoon historians, animation professionals and film critics.
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons. This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
Hailed by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of 2001, the Bio-Artificial Liver brought new hope to patients around the world. Developed by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura, the Bio-Artificial Liver ...
American Genius is an American documentary series focusing on the lives of inventors and pioneers who have been responsible for major developments in their areas of expertise and helped shape the course of history.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...