Inventors Ship Fire

Robert Fulton (14 November 1765 - 24 February 1815) was an engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat commercially. In 1800 he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history.

Fulton has been interested in steamboats in 1777 when he visited William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who earlier learned about James Watt steam machine on a visit to England. Henry then made his own engine and in 1767 he had tried to put the engine into the boat. The experiment failed because the ship sank, but interest continues.

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Roger Bacon (1214-1294) - Inventor Magnifying Glass

Magnifying glass was first discovered by Roger Bacon, he is also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "wonderful teacher"), he was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed an emphasis on empiricism. She is sometimes named as one of the advocates of the modern scientific method in Europe, inspired by the works of Plato and Aristotle through Islamic scientists and scholars of Jewish predecessors: Ibnu Sina, Ibnu Rushd and Maimonides.

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Inventor Of The Kodak Camera

George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854 in Waterville, near New York, United States. He was born to a poor family. When he was very young, she must share responsibility to support the family. He initially worked as a courier in an insurance company, and then became an employee file. While working, Eastman study accounting at night. At age 24, he was hired as a junior employee in a bank.

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Charles Babbage (1791-1871) - Inventor Analytical Engine

Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791-18 October 1871) was an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is now remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer. Considered a "father of the computer", Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs. His varied work in other fields has led him to be described as "pre-eminent" among the many polymaths of his century.

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Neil Arnott (1788-1874) - Inventor of Air Mattresses

Neil Arnott FRS (May 15, 1788 - March 2, 1874) was a physician and inventor and philanthropist from Scotland.

Graduate of Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, AM degree (Magister Artium) obtained in 1805, while the MD degree in 1814. Arnott internship in London under the care of physician Sir Everard Home. When I was 19 years old, Arnott was appointed as a surgeon in the East Indiaman merchant fleet owned by the UK and the Netherlands.

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Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) - Inventor Batteries

Alexander Volta (1745-1827)

Volta was Italian physicist, chemist, prince, professor, author, inventor element battery or pile Volta (1800), inventor of the condenser, eudimeter, stun guns, and light air. He improved elektroforus (1777) and electroscope. He discovered and isolated methane (1778). He was born in Como, Lombardia Italy on February 18, 1745 and died in 1827 Como also at the age of 82 years. Volta children the nobility. There are 9 siblings.

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Inventor Of The Telegraph

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872)

The first telegraph was invented by Samuel Finley Breese Morse or maybe called Samuel Morse, an American researcher in 1837 and in England in the same year by a physicist Sir William F. Cooke. Telegraph became an important communication tool in the mid-1800s until the mid 1900s.

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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was a U.S. inventor and teacher of the deaf, and he is known as the inventor of the telephone (telephone).

Born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh and London. Then in 1870 he moved to Canada and then moved again to the United States in 1871. In the U.S. he began teaching the deaf and dumb, popularizing the system is called a 'visual language'. System developed by his father, Alexander Melville Bell, who shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used to describe the sound.

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