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Adam Koppy

This role required him to carry out the design from clean sheet to final drawings in SolidWorks and Inventor, including structural analysis using the finite element method and hand calculations, as well as spindle design, drivetrain sizing, and servo actuator selection.

Alexander Makarov

Alexander Alexeyevich Makarov, Russian inventor in the field of mass spectrometry

Arthur Knight

Arthur F. Knight (1865–1936), American inventor credited with invention of steel golf clubs

Bernd Polster

His latest book is "bauhaus design", the first comprehensive overview on this topic, and a biography on Peter Ghyczy, an architect, inventor and entrepreneur.

Bessemer Park

Bessemer Park is a public park in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Created in 1904, it was named for Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the eponymous steelmaking process.

California Cycleway

The inventor and promotor of the cycleway was Pasadena resident Horace Dobbins, who attracted ex-California governor Henry Harrison Markham to join him in the venture.

Card counting

From the early days of card-counting, some players have been hugely successful, including Al Francesco, the inventor of blackjack team play and the man who taught Ken Uston how to count cards, and Tommy Hyland, manager of the longest-running blackjack team in history.

Carl Sontheimer

Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor.

Charles E. Roberts Stable

Charles E. Roberts was an engineer, inventor and an important early client of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith

Gibbs-Smith investigated the disputed subject of inventor Clément Ader's 1897 aeronautical experiments.

Codex Leicester

One page was exhibited at the Seattle Museum of Flight's 2006 exhibit "Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius."

Colchester, Ontario

Colchester was also the birthplace and hometown of railroad engineer and inventor Elijah McCoy, whose 45 patents and the invention of the locomotive lubrication cup led to the slogan "The real McCoy", denoting quality.

David Gestetner

David Gestetner (March 20, 1854, Csorna, Hungary – March 8, 1939, London) was the inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator, the first piece of office equipment that allowed production of numerous copies of documents quickly and inexpensively.

Easy-Bake Oven

The Easy-Bake Oven was invented by Ronald Howes, a prolific toy inventor known for working with Kenner Products.

Eli Janney

Eli H. Janney (1831–1912), American inventor of the Janney coupler used in rail transport

Elijah McCoy

Booker T. Washington in Story of the Negro (1909) recognized him as having produced more patents than any other black inventor up to that time.

Esslinger

Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944), German-American industrial designer and inventor

Facing the Flag

Following publication of the book, Verne was sued by the chemist Eugène Turpin, inventor of the explosive Melinite, who recognized himself in the character of Roch and was not amused.

Fred Archer

Fred R. Archer (1889–1963), photographer and co-inventor of the photographic Zone System

Gamgee

John Gamgee (1831–1894), English physician and inventor; developer of the Glaciarium (the first mechanically frozen ice rink) and the perpetual motion Zeromoter

Gerhard Hessert

He was married to Cornelia Fitch Baekeland, the granddaughter of Leo Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite.

Giuseppe Murnigotti

Giuseppe Murnigotti (Martinengo,1834 – 1903) was an Italian inventor of the motorcycle.

Gunnar Johansen

He organized conferences which included such notables as Edward Teller, inventor of the American hydrogen bomb, and Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

Gutenprint

The name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press.

Henry Klumpenhouwer

A former PhD student of David Lewin and the inventor of Klumpenhouwer networks, which are named after him, he is the former editor of Music Theory Spectrum.

James Puckle

James Puckle (1667–1724) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the Defence Gun, better known as the Puckle gun, a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of (depending on which version) firing up to nine rounds per minute.

Johan Johansson

Johan Petter Johansson, also known as JP Johansson, Swedish inventor and industrialist

Joule Unlimited

Joule Unlimited was founded within Flagship VentureLabs by Noubar Afeyan and David Berry (inventor).

JT Storage

It was founded in 1994 by "Jugi" Tandon—the inventor of the double-sided floppy disk drive and founder of Tandon Corporation—and Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate and former president and Chief Operating Officer of both Seagate and Conner Peripherals.

Kings Mountain, California

Long-time nationally prominent residents include birth control pill inventor and novelist Carl Djerassi; billionaire investor, Forbes columnist, and local historian Kenneth Fisher; and Rock ‘n Roll legend Neil Young.

Lenormand

Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757–1837), French physicist, inventor and pioneer in parachuting

Lessac Technologies

LTI was founded in 2000 by H. Donald Wilson (chairman), a lawyer, Lexus Nexus entrepreneur and business associate of Arthur Lessac; and Gary A. Marple (chief inventor), after Marple suggested that Arthur Lessac's kinesensic voice training might be applicable to computational linguistics.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Michael Schroeder

Michael Schroeder is a computer scientist perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Needham–Schroeder protocol.

PAL-M

Walter Bruch, inventor of PAL, explains Brazil's choice of PAL against these odds by an advertising campaign Telefunken and Philips carried out across South America in 1972, which included colour test broadcasts of popular shows (done with TV Globo) and technical demonstrations with executives of television stations.

Philippina Espenshied

Her nephew was Lloyd Espenschied, the co-creator of coax cable and inventor of the radio altimeter.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Ramón Verea

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García (Curantes, 1833 – Buenos Aires, 1899) was a Spanish journalist, engineer and writer, known as the inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.

Ransohoff

Joseph Ransohoff (1915–2001), an American neurosurgeon, inventor, and former chairman of the New York University School of Medicine.

Ray, North Dakota

Mary Sherman Morgan, inventor of Hydyne, which was combined with liquid oxygen to propel the first US rocket into orbit (1958)

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

Santon Burn

Downstream is the farm house, Arragon Moar, which has been converted into the home of Dr John Taylor, the inventor, horologist and founder of Strix.

Spahr

Samuel Spahr Laws (1824 – 1921), an American physician, businessman, inventor, professor, college president and minister

Sunnyslope Mountain

John C. Lincoln, an Ohio inventor and industrialist who founded Lincoln Electric, relocated to the Sunnyslope district in 1931 with his wife Helen, to treat her tuberculosis; almost immediately, the Lincolns became major financial supporters of Desert Mission and took on key leadership roles in the organization for most of the remainder of their lives.

Sütlü Nuriye

In the times of great horror and supply-shortages inflicted by the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, the inventor Şafak Dilken, who was working at the most famous baklava producer in Istanbul, used milk instead of sorbet, and hazelnuts instead of pistachios and came up with a new dessert.

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.

Théophraste Renaudot

Mark Tungate has termed him the "first French journalist" and the "inventor of the personal ad".

Tweeter

In past decades, ESS of California produced a series of hybrid loudspeakers using such tweeters, along with conventional woofers, referring to them as Heil transducers after their inventor, Oskar Heil.

Wool combing machine

The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster.

Zaschka

Engelbert Zaschka (1895-1955), a German chief engineer, chief designer, inventor and helicopter pioneer


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