ANGUS, D.: Great Inventors and their Great Inventions (Unabridged)
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Introduction |
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Archimedes 287 - 212 BC |
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Archimedes was himself, first and foremost … |
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Of course it was in the bath that Archimedes … |
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King Heiron died in 216 BC … |
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Johann Gutenberg 1400 - 1468 |
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North of Strasbourg lay the city of Aachen … |
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It is not hard to imagine how the idea … |
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Gutenberg had been going to print a missal … |
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Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 |
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Benjamin headed north to New York … |
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The stove was a great success … |
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But his most famous invention came … |
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Two years later he was sent back to London … |
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Alfred Nobel 1833 - 1896 |
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By the time Alfred Nobel was born … |
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They built a small factory, where they produced … |
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In 1888 Nobel produced a new, smokeless gunpowder |
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Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922 |
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Aleck spent a year at Edinburgh University … |
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Aleck began helping his father to teach … |
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Bell’s second idea was what he called the ‘harp’ t |
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In 1876, it was the hundredth anniversary … |
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Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937 |
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When he was 20 and on holiday in the Italian Alps |
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By now, even his father was beginning … |
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On 26th April 1900, Marconi took out his patent nu |
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The Wright Brothers : Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912 Or |
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Around 1890, the first bicycles were being importe |
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In 1900, after consulting the United States Weathe |
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When the brothers went to companies … |
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By the end of that year they had made over a hundr |
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Thomas Alva Edison 1847 - 1931 |
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One day, as he was walking to the train … |
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The office manager was so delighted that he hired |
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Edison had a flash of inspiration … |
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