Inventions

= Inventions =

**Inventor** : Chester Greenwood was born in Farmington, Maine in 1858. A grammar school dropout, he invented earmuffs at the age of 15 (1873). While testing a new pair of ice skates, Chester Greenwood grew frustrated at trying to protect his ears from the bitter cold. After wrapping his head in a scarf, which was too bulky and itchy, he made two ear-shaped loops from wire and asked his grandmother to sew fur on them. He patented an improved model with a steel band which held them in place and with Greenwood's Champion Ear Protectors, he established Greenwood's Ear Protector Factory. He made a fortune supplying Ear Protectors to U.S. soldiers during World War I. He went on to patent more many other inventions. (Contributed by Mrs Ada Leong)
 * Invention **: Earmuffs

**Inventor** :Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1847. A engineer, scientist, a teacher for the deaf and a professor in Boston University. While working the summer in Brantford, Alexander Graham Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. He thought the metal reeds like in a harp would be able to convert undulating currents back into sound. However,he did not have a workinmodel to demonstrate the feasibility of these ideas. In 1874, he mentioned to Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders that he was working on a method of sending multiple tones on a telegraph wire using a multi-reed device, the two wealthy patrons to finacially support Bell's experiments. With the financial support he hired an assistant named Thomas Watson. Bell realised that one reed was necessary.This led to the telephone, which was able to transmit indistinct,voice-like sounds,not clear speech.~S Kugan
 * Invention **: Telephone

**Inventor** :**Thomas Alva Edison** Edison is the third most prolific inventor in history, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He is credited with numerous inventions that contributed to mass communication and, in particular, telecommunications. These included a stock ticker, a mechanical vote recorder, a battery for an electric car, electrical power, recorded music and motion pictures. His advanced work in these fields was an outgrowth of his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison originated the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories – a crucial development in the modern industrialized world. His first power station was on Manhattan Island, New York. ~dainese chandra Source:http://www.wikipedia.org/
 * Invention **:light bulb
 * Thomas Alva Edison** (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (now Edison ,New Jersey) by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large teamwork to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

**Inventor** :**Charles Babbage**
 * Invention **:Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated 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.Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991, a perfectly functioning difference engine was constructed from Babbage's original plans. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the success of the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked. Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine, an astonishingly complex device for the 19th century.

**Inventor** : ** Ferdinand Verbiest **
 * Invention **:Around 1672 he designed – as a toy for the Chinese Emperor – a steam-propelled trolley which was, quite possibly, the first working steam-powered vehicle ('auto-mobile'). Verbiest describes it in his work //Astronomia Europea//. As it was only 65 cm long, and therefore effectively a scale model, not designed to carry human passengers, nor a driver, it is not strictly accurate to call it a 'car'.

**Inventor** : **Zacharias**
 * Invention **: More than 400 years ago in Holland, Zacharias Jansenn was in the business of grinding lenses for eyeglasses. Some of his lenses made things look bigger. He found that he could put two lenses together to make things look a **LOT** bigger. So, in about 1595, Zacharias built the first microscope. ("Micro" means "small." "Scope" means "to see.")The first microscopes made things look 20 or 30 times larger than they are. This is enough to see the details of some tiny plants and insects and animals that are too small to see with just our eyes.

**Inventor** :**Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham)**
 * Invention **:Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham), a great authority on optics in the Middle Ages who lived around 1000AD, invented the first pinhole camera, (also called the Camera Obscura} and was able to explain why the images were upside down. The first casual reference to the optic laws that made pinhole cameras possible, was observed and noted by Aristotle around 330 BC, who questioned why the sun could make a circular image when it shined through a square hole.

**Inventor** : **Martin Cooper** Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American former Motorola vice president and division manager who in the 1970s led the team that developed the handheld mobile phone (as distinct from the car phone). Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm, a company that works on researching smart antenna technology and improving wireless networks, and was the corporate director of Research and Development for Motorola.
 * Invention **:

**Inventor** : **Paul Gottlieb Nipkow** Nipkow's design would not be practical until advances in amplifier tube technology became available. The device was only useful for transmitting still "halftone" images—represented by equally spaced dots of varying size—over telegraph or telephone lines. Later designs would use a rotating mirror-drum scanner to capture the image and a cathode ray tube (CRT) as a display device, but moving images were still not possible, due to the poor sensitivity of the selenium sensors.
 * Invention **:In 1884 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a 23-year-old university student in Germany, patented the first electromechanical television system which employed a scanning disk, a spinning disk with a series of holes spiraling toward the center, for rasterization. The holes were spaced at equal angular intervals such that in a single rotation the disk would allow light to pass through each hole and onto a light-sensitive selenium sensor which produced the electrical pulses. As an image was focused on the rotating disk, each hole captured a horizontal "slice" of the whole image.

**Inventor** :**Reginald Fessenden**
 * Invention: **Reginald Fessenden was a Canadian inventor reputed for his achievements in early radio. The first audio transmission by radio in 1900, the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission in 1906 and the first radio broadcast of entertainment and music in 1906 were his three significant milestones. Fessenden concluded that he could devise a better system than the spark-gap transmitter and coherer-receiver combination that had been put forth by Lodge and Marconi.

**Inventor** :**Willis Haviland Carrier**
 * Invention **:In 1902, only one year after Willis Haviland Carrier graduated from Cornell University with a Masters in Engineering, the first air (temperature and humidity) conditioning was in operation, making one Brooklyn printing plant owner very happy. Fluctuations in heat and humidity in his plant had caused the dimensions of the printing paper to keep altering slightly, enough to ensure a misalignment of the colored inks. The new air conditioning machine created a stable environment and aligned four-color printing became possible. All thanks to the new employee at the Buffalo Forge Company,

**Inventor** :** Alessandro Volta **
 * Invention **: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, known for his pioneering work in electricity. Volta was born in Italy . By 1800 he had developed the so-called voltaic pile, a forerunner of the electric battery, which produced a steady stream of electricity. In recognition of his work in the field of electricity, the electrical unit known as the volt was named in his honor.

**Inventor** :**Blaise Pascal**
 * Invention **:Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.He built twenty of these machines called the Pascalinein the following ten years.

**Inventor** :**Whitcomb L. Judson**
 * Invention **:The zipper is a popular device for temporarily joining two edges of fabric. Zippers are found on trousers, jeans, jackets, and luggage. Whitcomb L. Judson was an American mechanical engineer from Chicago who was the first to invent, conceive of the idea, and to construct a zipper. Using a hook-and-eye device, Judson intended for this earliest form of the zipper to be used on shoes. He also conceived the idea of the slide fastener mechanism in conjunction with the invention of the zipper.

**Inventor** :**Morris Michtom**
 * Invention **:A teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal that has become a collector's item. The first teddy bear was invented in 1902 by Morris Michtom, owner of a Brooklyn toy store, who was inspired by Clifford Berryman's political cartoon //Drawing the Line in Mississippi// that depicted President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt on a hunting trip in Mississippi who spared the life of a Louisiana black bear cub. Michtom asked for and received President Roosevelt’s permission to use his name for the hand-sewn bears called "Teddy bears" that he invented and his wife helped construct.

**Inventor** :**Nathaniel Baldwin**
 * Invention **:A headset is a headphone combined with a microphone. Headsets provide the equivalent functionality of a telephone handset with hands-free operation. They are used in call centers and by people in telephone-intensive jobs. The first-ever headset was invented in 1910, by a Stanford University student named Nathaniel Baldwin.

**Inventor** :**Leo Gerstenzang**
 * I **** nvention **:Cotton swabs consist of a small wad of cotton wrapped around either one or both ends of a small rod. They are commonly used in a variety of applications including first aid, cosmetics application, for cleaning, and arts & crafts. The cotton swab was invented by Leo Gerstenzang in 1923, who invented the product after attaching wads of cotton to a toothpick. His product, which he named "Baby Gays", went on to become the most widely-sold brand name, "Q-tip".

**Inventor** :**Sam Foster**
 * I **** nvention **:Sunglasses or sun glasses are a visual aid which feature lenses that are coloured, polarized or darkened to prevent strong light from reaching the eyes. For centuries, Chinese judges had routinely worn smoke-colored quartz lenses to conceal their eye expressions in court. However, these were not intended for blocking sunlight from eyes. It wasn't until the 20th century that what is now considered to be sunglasses were invented. In 1929, Sam Foster invented and mass-produced the first tinted eyewear pieces solely intended to block out sunlight

**Inventor** :**Sylvan Goldman**
 * Invention **:A shopping cart is a metal or plastic basket on wheels supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping. Often, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the parking lot, and store personnel return the carts to the shop. The first shopping cart was invented by Sylvan Goldman in 1937, owner of the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City.

**Inventor** :**Walter Hunt**
 * Invention **:The safety pin is a fastening device, a variation of the regular pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp. The clasp serves two purposes, to form a closed loop thereby properly fastening the pin to whatever it is applied to, and to cover the end of the pin to protect the user from the sharp point. The safety pin was invented by Walter Hunt, and patented in April 1849. The rights to the invention were sold for $400.

**Inventor** :**Marvin Stone**
 * Invention **:The drinking straw is a tube used for transferring a liquid to the mouth, usually a drink from one location to another. The first crude forms of drinking straws were made of dry, hollow, rye grass. Marvin Stone is the inventor of the drinking straw. Stone, who worked in a factory that made paper cigarette holders, did not like this design because it made beverages taste like grass. As an alternative, on January 3, 1888, Stone got a piece of paper from his factory and wrapped it around a pencil. By coating it with wax, his drinking straw became leak-proof so that it would not get waterlogged.

**Inventor** :**Thomas Hancock**
 * Invention **:The first rubber band was developed in 1843, when an Englishman named Thomas Hancock sliced up a rubber bottle made by some New World Indians. Although these first rubber bands were adapted as garters and waistbands, their usefulness was limited because they were unvulcanized. Hancock himself never vulcanized his invention, but he did advance the rubber industry by developing the masticator machine, a forerunner of the modern rubber milling machine used to manufacture rubber bands as well as other rubber products.

**Inventor** :**Samuel B. Fay**
 * Invention **:The first bent-wire paper clip was patented by Samuel B. Fay in 1867. This clip was originally intended primarily for attaching tickets to fabric, although the patent recognized that it could be used to attach papers together.

**Inventor** :**Yukio Horie**
 * Invention **: The first fiber tip pen (highlighter) was invented by Yukio Horie in 1962 in Japan. A highlighter is a fiber tip pen filled with transparent brightly colored ink. The Avery Dennison Corporation trademarked the name Hi-Liter®, they invented the name highlighter, but they did not invent the pen.

**Inventor** :**Bette Nesmith Graham**
 * Invention **:In 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strived for a way to correct them. She startied on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender.

**Inventor** :**John Loud** ~Sean Koh
 * Invention **:The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do. Loud's pen had a small rotating steel ball, held in place by a socket. Although it could be used to mark rough surfaces such as leather, as Loud intended, it proved to be too coarse for letter writing and was not commercially exploited.


 * Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin** ([|Russian]: Влади́мир Козьми́ч Зворы́кин - //Vladimir Koz'mich Zvorykin//) (July 29 (17), 1888 – July 29, 1982)[|[][|1][|]] was a [|Russian-American] inventor, engineer, and pioneer of [|television] technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing [|cathode ray tubes]. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, [|infrared] image tubes and the electron microscope.~Jadon Ching

Inventor:Otto Wichterle Invention:The mordern soft contact lenses was first invented by Otto Wichterle and his assistant Drahoslav Lim,who also invented the first gel.Leonardo Da Vinci was credited with discribing and sketching the first ideas for contact lenses in 1508 ,but it was more than 300 years later before contact lenses were actually fabricated and worn on the eye.People chose to wear contact lenses for many reasons,often due to their appearance and practicality.When compared with spectacles,contact lenses are less affected wet weather,do not steam up and provide a wider field of version.They are more suitable for a number of sporting activities.~:D Moe Thiri Lwin

Inventor:Montgolfier brothers Joseph-Michael Montgolfier(1740-1810) and Jacques-Michael Montgolfier(1745-1799) Invention:The montgolfier brothers were the inventors of the hot air ballon.The brothers discovered that heated air from a fire which was directed onto a paper or fabric bag made the bag rise.Their discovery was demonstrated in 1782 when the balloon they made rose about 1000 metres in the air,remained aloft for about 10 minutes and then settled to the ground more than 2.4 kilometresfrom where it rose.In June 1783,the brothers gave a public exhibition in their town of Annonay of their discovery,a balloon made of silk and lined with paper to trap gas.The balloon rose to an altitude of about 1830 metres,travelled more than 1.6 kilometres and stayed aloft for 10 minutes.In september of the same year,the brothers put some animals aboard to determine the altitude on living creatures.The balloons floated for about 8 minutes and landed safely about 3.2 kilometres from where it was launched. The brothers went on to do more experimental flights.At that time,they believed they discovered a new gas.However,in 1785,the buoyancy of the balloon was shown to be caused by heated air in the atmosphere.~HanThit

Inventor:Albert Einstien ( 14 March 1879-18 April 1955) Invention:Einstien Refrigerator The Einstien Refrigetor is an absorption refrigerator wich has no moving parts and requires only a heat source to operate-it does not require electricity to operate, only a heat source.It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstien,his former student and pantented in the U.S on November 11,1930~Yap Zhao Rong

Inventor:Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988)He was born on june 13/1911.Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicist of the twentieth century. Invention:He received patents for a radio distance and direction indicator, a landing system for aircrafts, a radar system for locating planes and the hydrogen bubble chamber, used to detect subatomic particles.~Brosnan

Inventor:Pierre Michaux Invention:The very first bicycle was invented by Pierre Michaux.It was affectionaly known as the boneshaker.Many versions of bicycle were realeased since its invention.The very first version have two large wheels with pedals attached to the front wheel.The second version consist of two wheels but different in size.The pedals were still attached to the front wheel.The mordern bicycle follows the same principles as the first bike.But it uses the rear wheel to propel the bicycle.The centre of the small wheel is connected to oppositing pedals by a chain. An entire sport is also dedicated to the bicycle. Cycling has driven the development of the bicycle and made it into a science. The racer is always searching for a lighter and stronger frame for their bicycle. The theory is that the lighter you can make the frame, the faster you will be able to propel the bicycle. Quick attachment and release of the wheels is another of the enhancements that have developed in the area of bicycles

~Moe Thiri Lwin The Davy Lamp is a safety lamp with a wick and oil vessel burning originally a heavy vegetable oil, devised in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It was created for use in coal mines, allowing deep seams to be mined despite the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called //firedamp// or //minedamp//. The lamp also provided a test for the presence of gases. If flammable gas mixtures were present, the flame of the Davy lamp burned higher with a blue tinge as shown by the gauge. Miners could place the safety lamp close to the ground to detect gases, such as carbon dioxide, that are denser than air and so could collect in depressions in the mine; if the mine air was oxygen-poor, the lamp flame would be extinguished. A flame is extinguished at about 17% oxygen content, air which will still support life, so the lamp gave an early indication of a problem.~Chiok Pei Xin
 * Inventor:** Sir Humphry Dary
 * Invention:** Davy Lamp

The first TV remote control, called "Lazy Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith Electronics Corporation (then known as Zenith Radio Corporation). Lazy Bones used a cable that ran from the TV set to the viewer. In 1956, Zenith's Dr. Robert Adler suggested using "ultrasonic's," that is, high-frequency sound, beyond the range of human hearing. He was assigned to lead a team of engineers to work on the first use of ultrasonic's technology in the home as a new approach for a remote control. ~Moe Thiri~ **Inventor:** ** John Batterson Stetson ** **Invention:** Cowhats In 1865, John Batterson Stetson invented and sold his first hat in Central City, Colorado,a wide-brimmed, high-crowned, design that he called "Boss of the Plains, more commonly known as the " ten-gallon cowboy hat".John Stetson was a hat maker from New Jersey who moved from west to seek his fortune during the gold rush. Stetson's cowboy hat was later renamed Stetson'' after the maker.The hats protected the cowboy eyes from the sun and the cowboys necks from the rain. ~Eaint Chit~
 * Inventor:**Robert Adler
 * Invention:**wireless remote control

**Inventor:** William L. Potts & Garret Morgan **Invention:** Traffic light There was a lantern that was installed at an intersection in London in 1868. The lantern had two lights, green and red. Green meant 'go' and red meant 'stop'. This lantern was illuminated by gas. On January 2, 1869 , this crude traffic light exploded causing the policeman that was operating it to be injured. With the coming of more automobiles, the situation got worse. Police Officer William L. Pots decided to do something. Potts used red, amber and green railroad lights and wire and electrical control to make the world's four-way three colour traffic light. It was installed in 1920 on the corner of Woodward and Michigan Avenues in Detroit. Within a year, Detroit installed a total of fifteen traffic lights. At about the same time, Garrett Morgan of Cleveland, Ohio realized the need to control the flow of traffic. A gifted inventor and reportedly the first African American to own an automobile in Cleveland, Ohio, he invented the electric automatic traffic light. ~ Erlisa Sharida ~

Inventor:Cai **Lun** (ca. 50 AD – 121) Invention:paper and the papermaking process He paper and the papermaking process, Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC)__. __he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of paper-making by adding essential new materials into it. He //then initiated the idea of making paper from the bark of trees, remnants of hemp, rags of cloth, and fishing nets. He submitted the process to the emperor in the first year of Yuan-Hsing [+105] and received praise for his ability. From this time, paper has been in use everywhere and is universally called 'the paper of Marquis Tshai'.~ Chian Xin Tong~//

Inventor: The Wright Brothers Invention: Aeroplane The **Wright brothers**, **Orville** (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and **Wilbur** (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful aeroplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible. ~ Lew Yee Ling

Inventor:Leonard Da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519)

Invention:helicopter
Leonard Da Vinci invented the first helicopter. Da Vinci did not limit himself to the arts. He also dabbled into engineering. In fact, da Vinci indicated that his occupation is a military engineer, as he designed numerous machines and contraptions of war for Italian warlords during his time. This is in stark contrast with his popular image asan artist, an image that owes to the popularity of his Mona Lisa. ~Song Jinhua

He was an Italian inventor who demonstrated the practicability of radio communication. His first radio signal was sent and received in 1895. In 1899, the first wireless signal was sent across the English Channel. In 1902, the letter 'S' was telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first triumphant transatlantic radiotelegraph. ~ Benishia Angelin P4/8
 * Inventor:Guglielmo Marconi **
 * Invented:Radio **

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco invented the first piano.The total number of pianos built by Cristofori is unknown. Only three survive today, all dating from the 1720s.Cristofori's action was sufficiently complex and hard to build that it was a barrier to later builders, who tried to simplify it. However, Cristofori's viewpoint ultimately won out; the standard modern piano action is a still more complex and evolved version of Cristofori's original.His piano as built by Cristofori in the 1720s boasted almost all of the features of the modern instrument. It differed in being of very light construction, lacking a metal frame; this meant that it could not produce an especially loud tone. This continued to be the rule for pianos until around 1820, when iron bracing was first introduced. ~Wong Sin Set
 * Inventor:Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco** (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731)
 * Invention:Piano **

__**Inventor:Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April15, 1452- May 2,1519)**__ __**Invention:Machine gun**__ Da Vinci invented the first machine gun. Da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer,inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Unfortunately the Borgia, templar order, found him and made him make weapons for them, which in the wrong hands would be very dangerous. He also painted The Last Supper, the most reproduced religious painting of all time. ~ Aun Ali

**Inventor: Sir Joseph Priestley**
In 1770, Sir Joseph Priestley, a scientist, invented an eraser.An eraser rubs away pecil marks. For example, I wrote a word wrongly, I will use the eraser to erase the word. I will do that by rubbing the eraser on the word. An eraser can only be used when the word we wrote is written using a pencil. The eraser is no use againt a word written using a pen. Europeans were rubbing pencil marks with small cubes of rubber at that time. The rubber was not an easy substance to work with as it went badvery easily just like food. That's why Sir Joseph Priestley invented an eraser.~Audrey Khong
 * Invention:Eraser**

Adams Sons and Company was formed in 1876 by the glass merchant Thomas Adams (1818-1905) and his two sons. As a result of experiments in a warehouse of Front Street, Adams made chewing gum that had chicle as an ingredient, large quantities of which had been made available to him by General Antonio de Santa Anna of Mexico, who was in exile in Staten Island and at whose instigation Adams had tried to use the chicle to make rubber. Adams sold the gum with the slogan "Adams' New York Gum No. 1 -- Snapping and Stretching." The firm was the nation's most prosperous chewing gum company by the end of the century: it built a monopoly in 1899 ny merging with the six largest and best-known chewing gum manufacturers in the United States and Canada, and achieved great success as the maker of Chiclets. ~ Nur Dhamirah
 * Inventor: Thomas Adams**
 * Invention: Chewing Gum**

Invention:bifocal glasses
Franklin invented bifocal glasses (glasses for people who are both nearsighted and farsighted, like Franklin in his later life). Tired of switching between two pairs of glasses, Franklin cut the lenses of each pair of glasses horizontally, making a single pair of glasses that focused at both near regions (the bottom half of the lenses) and far regions (the top half of the lenses).-Jeremy Tay

**Inventor:** Ferdinand Verbiest was born in Pittem, Belgium on October 9, 1623. He invented the first car in the year 1672. **Invention:** Car It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam. Ferdinand was an experimentalist and a missionary to China. He built his car in China. Hence you could rightly say, the first ever car was made in China. Steam was generated in a ball-shaped boiler, emerging through a pipe at the top, from where it was directed at a simple, open 'steam turbine' (rather like a water wheel) that drove the rear wheels.It is not known if Verbiest's model was ever built at the time, although he had access to China's finest metal-working craftsmen who were constructing precision astronomical instruments for him. ~ Seo Qiao Ting

**Inventor-Douglas C. Engelbart** **Inventor of the computer mouse** In 1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface (GUI), 'windows'. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse) in 1970, describing it in the patent application as an "X-Y position indicator for a display system." "It was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end," Engelbart revealed about his invention. ~Charlene L.V.

Inventor of the pencil sharpener
He was the first to get a patent for pencil sharpeners in 1828. Following his invention, other designers made improvements and refinements.Pencils had been invented before the sharpener and people used knives to sharpen them. It was a tedious process and the result was uneven. After Lassimone’s invention, Therry des Estwaux came out with a mechanical sharpener in 1844.It took a while before the devices were accepted. But by 1865 companies were already manufacturing pencil sharpeners. A company called Eureka filed a patent for a small sharpener sometime in the mid 1860s.By the 1880s, several companies started producing them in larger numbers. One of the most well known companies in the early history of pencil sharpeners was Eagle Pencil Company in New York.~Vicky Poh

//**Inventor-Richard G Drew**// //**Invention-Adhesive and Masking tape**// Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape for painters in 1923.this early masking tape was a wide paper tape with adhesive on only the edges of the tape -not in the middle.Drew made an improved tape called Scotch (TM) brand cellulose tape in 1930.This tape was a clear,all purpose adhesive tape that was soon adapted worldwide.~EvanLang

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 * // Inventor, Galileo Galilei //**
 * // Inventions, //**** He invented a crude thermometer, earlytelescope, and contributed to the invention of the clock. **
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 * //Inventor - Thomas Davenport//**
 * //Invention - Electric streetcar//**
 * Thomas Davenport (July 9, 1802 -July 6, 1851) was an American blacksmith and inventor who established the first commercially successful electric streetcar. Davenport, from Vermont, invented an electric motor in 1834 and began a small electric railway in 1835. He patented a device for "Improvements in propelling machinery by magnetism and electromagnetism" in 1837 (his electric railway). Davenport later started a workshop in New York City, New York, and published a journal on electromagnetism (it was printed on a press that was powered by motors which he devised).Source by:**

Douglas C. Engelbart. Inventor of the computer mouse. In1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface (GUI),``window``. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse) in 1970, describing it in the patent application as an ``X-Y position indicator for a display system``. It was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end``,Engelbart revealed about his invention. [] Mohd Jufri.

INVENTER: Ts`ai LUN INVENTION: paper The word "paper" is derived from the word "papyrus," which was a plant found in Egypt along the lower Nile River. About 5,000 years ago, Egyptians created "sheets" of papyrus by harvesting, peeling and slicing the plant into strips. The strips were then layered, pounded together and smoothed to make a flat, uniform sheet.Then, Ts'ai Lun took the inner bark of a mulberry tree and bamboo fibers, mixed them with water, and pounded them with a wooden tool. He poured this mixture onto a flat piece of coarsely woven cloth to dry the mixture.When it was dry,he found out that thy dried mixture had a quality writing surface and was lightwheight as well.The knowledege was then passed along to some other countries.~Yuhao

Inventor :Richard G. Drew Invention : Adhesive tape Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a straight border between two colors). This early masking tape was a wide paper tape with adhesive on only the edges of the tape - not in the middle. Drew made an improved tape called Scotch (TM) Brand Cellulose Tape in 1930. This tape was a clear, all-purpose adhesive tape that was soon adopted worldwide. The first tape dispenser with a built-in cutting edge was invented in 1932 by John A. Borden, another 3M employee.~Fung Wen Wu

Inventor:Thomas Edison Inventions: In 1806 Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp tothe Royal Society. Davy's lamp produced its illumination by creating a blinding electric spark between two charcoal rods. This device, known as an "arclamp," was impractical for most uses. The light, similar to that of a welding torch, was simply too bright to be used in residences and mostbusinesses. The device also needed a tremendous source of power and the batteries which powered Davy's demonstration model were quickly drained.As time went on, electric generators were invented that could feed the arc lamp's need for power. Iit found its way intoapplications where a brilliant source of light was needed. Lighthouses and public assembly areas were obvious uses. Later arc lamps were used in war topower huge searchlights used to spot enemy planes. Today you can see such searchlights lighting up the sky near movie theaters or at the opening of a new stores.~Lee Wei Hang

Inventor:Galileo Galilei Inventions, He invented a crude thermometer, early telescope, and contributed to the invention of the clock. ~FengJiaNing~

Inventor:Stepen Perry Invention:The first rubber band was made in 1845 by Stephen Perry of the rubber manufacturing company Messers Perry and Co., in London, England. This rubber band was made of vulcanized rubber. Perry invented the rubber band to hold papers or envelopes together.~HuangJiashun~

Invention: **Small Grain** **Mechanical Reaper** Cyrus was Born Feb 15 1809 and died May 13 1884. Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately. Patenting his invention in 1834, after Obed Hussey had announced (1833) the construction of a reaper of his own, McCormick started to manufacture the machine on the family estate in 1837. Six years later he began to license its manufacture in other parts of the country. In 1847 he set up a factory in Chicago, founding what eventually became one of the greatest industrial establishments in the United States.
 * Inventor: Cyrus Hall McCormick**

Source= [] Inventor=Ralp Baer Ralph Baer was popular for people especially for kids.He invented 'Video Games' in 1967.Ralph Baer was a engineer born in Germany in 1922.Baer developed a number of games that became part of his “Brown Box,” a multi-game console, including ping-pong, handball, soccer, volleyball, target shooting, checkers, and golf.In 2004, Baer was a recipient of the National Medal of Technology.He served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence during WWII. = = = = In 1997, Philippe Kahn invented the very first camera phone to take pictures of his daughter’s birth. However, the Sharp Corporation, a Japanese based company, was first in producing camera phones that were available commercially by 2000.
 * Scanning Tunneling Microscope**Patent Number(s) 4,343,993**Inducted 1994**Since the invention of the first microscope, scientists have searched for improved ways to explore the microscopic world. Optical systems were limited by the wavelength of light (roughly 2,000 times the diameter of an atom). Later, electron microscopes achieved much higher resolution by taking advantage of the much shorter wavelength of electrons in forming images. The most recent revolution came with Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Karl Binnig's scanning tunneling microscope (STM), invented in 1981, which provided the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of materials.-ashwin
 * Inventor: Philippe kahn**
 * Camera Phones**

Early camera phones produced poor quality pictures that had very low pixel resolution. Similarly, the pictures taken with these original models took up a large amount of the cell phone’s memory, meaning that only a few pictures could be stored on the phone. However, as technology has advanced over the years, cell phone cameras can store more pictures that are of significantly better quality. ~ Angel Tan

**Inventor:**Federico Faggin
 * Invention: ** Receiveda patent for a computer microprocessor chip called the Intel 4004.~Jianing

Inventor : Eli Whitney Invention: He invented the cotton gin in 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates seed, hulls and other unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked up. Source: [] user:AlyssaLOL11Alyssa^^1351941833

Inventor:Andrew Alford Invention:He invented localizer antenna system for radio navigation systems-Chun Xiang

Invention: Lego Inventor: Ole Kirk Christiansen who was a Danish carpenter, invented the LEGO.

Inventor: Vladimir Barmin was in Russia in in 19 09 an died in 19 93.Barmin worked at the Komkpressor Plant. Barmin worked at the Kompressor Plant.He is a specialist in mechanisms and machine building. Invention:He invented the first roket launch complex(spaceport).~Shirly