Top 100 Global Creator - P96. Edwin Beard Budding: Creator of lawnmower
12-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), an engineer from Eastington, Stroud, was the English inventor of the lawn moner and adjustable spanner.
Top 100 Global Creator - P94. John Walker: Creator of friction match
08-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) He developed an interest in trying to find a means of obtaining fire easily. Several chemical mixtures were already known which would ignite by a sudden explosion, but it had not been found possible to transmit the flame to a slow-burning substance like wood.
Top 100 Global Creator - P92. Vesta Oral Stoudt : Creator of duct tape
08-11-2020
(Worldkings.org) Her idea was to seal boxes with a waterproof, tearable cloth tape which she created and tested at her job.
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 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 - 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.
Top 100 Global Creator - P84. Guglielmo Marconi: Creator of radio
30-10-2020
(Worldkings.org) He is credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
Top 100 Global Creator - P82. Peter Durand - Creator of preserving food using tin cans
27-10-2020
(Worldkings.org) Durand's patent was dedicated to the preservation technique rather than to the vessel. The technique itself was developed previously by a Frenchman, Nicolas Appert.
Top 100 Global Creator - P79. Justus von Liebig - Creator of mirror silvering
25-10-2020
(Worldkings.org) He also developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts, and with his consent a company, called Liebig Extract of Meat Company, was founded to exploit the concept.
Top 100 Global Creator - P78. Cai Lun - Creator of paper
24-10-2020
(Worldkings.org) His contributions have been enormously impactful on human history and of China's so-called Four Great Inventions – the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing.
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