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Famous Inventors and Their Inventions
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Leonardo da Vinci
Conceptualized flying machines, solar power, adding machine
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of Penicillin
Guglielmo Marconi
Development of Marconi's law and the radio telegraph system
The Wright Brothers
First successful airplane
Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur)
First successful powered airplane
Michael Faraday
Invention of the electric motor, Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's Law
Benjamin Franklin
Lightning rod, Franklin stove, Bifocal glasses
Stephanie Kwolek
Invention of Kevlar
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations (foundation of classical electrodynamics)
Thomas Edison
Phonograph, Incandescent light bulb, Motion picture camera
Nikola Tesla
Alternating current (AC) power system, Tesla coil
Louis Pasteur
Pasteurization, Vaccination for rabies and anthrax
Karl Benz
First practical automobile powered by an internal combustion engine
James Watt
Improvements to the steam engine
Galileo Galilei
Improvement of the telescope, various astronomical observations
Johannes Gutenberg
Movable type printing press
Sir Isaac Newton
Laws of motion, Law of universal gravitation
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
Marie Curie
Discoveries of radium and polonium, Pioneering research on radioactivity
Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
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