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Great Inventors and Great Inventions

Great Inventions of Ancient Times

Perhaps the most important invention of history because they are the reason human advancement and civilisation of human beings were able to flurish were because of different creations, including:
  • fire
  • the wheel


  • Great Inventions of Medieval Times

    Warefare during the medieval days increase the development of iron, cement and other useful resources still used today.

    Great inventions of 1500 century to 1900

    Great inventions of today

    Many inventions have rapidly expanded in this modern age including:
  • Computers
  • Spacecrafts
  • Aircrafts


  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Thomas Edison


    Reference Sites - of at least 10

    Alessandro Volta
    Alessandro Volta - Inventor of the Electric Battery.
    http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/volta.htm

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell - Inventor of the Telephone.
    http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/bell.htm

    Alfred Bernhard Nobel
    Alfred Bernhard Nobel - Inventor of Dynamite.
    http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/nobel.htm

    Blaise Pascal
    Blaise Pascal - Inventor of the (early computer) mechanical adding machine.
    http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/pascal.htm

    Guglielmo Marchese Marconi
    Invented "Tuned Syntonic Telegraphy". This invention introduced tuned circuits to wireless for the first time.
    http://www.rockradio.freeserve.co.uk/marconi.htm

    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
    Heinrich Rudolf Hertz devised a transmitting oscillator, from which electric waves were made to radiate.
    http://www.rockradio.freeserve.co.uk/hertz.htm

    Louis Pasteur
    Louis Pasteur solved the mysteries of rabies, anthrax, chicken cholera, and silkworm diseases, and contributed to the development of the first vaccines.
    http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Louis_Pasteur.html

    Michael Faraday
    Michael Faraday was the founder of the science of Electromagnetism.
    http://www.rockradio.freeserve.co.uk/faraday.htm

    Samuel Morse
    Samuel Morse - Inventor of the Morse Code.
    http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/morse/morse.html

    Who invented the ...?
    List of inventors and inventions and when they were invented.
    http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Childrens/FactSheets/WhoInventedIt.asp


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