Top 100 Global Creator - P91. Ambrose Godfrey: Creator of fire extinguisher
07-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Other forms of early fire extinguisher were invented in the early Eighteenth century, including Ambrose Godfrey’s version of the water sprinkler, where fires would be put out by triggering fuses, connected to gunpowder.
Top 100 Global Creator - P90. George de Mestral: Creator of Velcro tape
06-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) De Mestral worked with a weaver in France to create hooks and loops strong and durable enough to cling together as he intended.
Top 100 Global Innovative Companies - P100. Bayer AG
06-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products; agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products.
Top 100 Global Creator - P89. Pellegrino Turri: Creator of mechanical typing machine
05-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Although not much is known about the machine, some of the letters written on it by the countess have survived.
Top 100 Global Innovative Companies - P99. Airbus SE
05-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface.
Top 100 Global Innovative Companies - P98. Nestlé S.A.
03-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Today, Nestlé is the biggest food and drink company in the world, operating in 194 countries and producing everything from face cream to dog food.
Top 100 Global Innovative Companies - P97. Intel Corporation
03-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Intel Corporation is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip manufacturer based on revenue, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs).
Top 100 Global Creator - P88. Alec Jeffreys: Creator of techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling
03-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) He is a professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, and he became an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992. In 1994, he was knighted for services to genetics.
Top 100 Global Creator - P87. Raymond Damadian: Creator of magnetic resonance imaging
02-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Raymond Damadian received the first patent in the field of MRI in 1974. His original MRI full-body scanner was given to the Smithsonian Institution in the 1980s and is now on loan and on display at the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Ohio.
Top 100 Global Creator - P86. James Russell: Creator of compact disc
02-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) The first commercialized CD player came out 1982.By 1985, Russell had earned 26 patents for CD-ROM technology.
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