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Pioneers in Science
Bacquerel—Radio-activity of uranium.
Baird—Television.
Baron Napier—Logarithms.
Binet—Intelligence Test.
Carothers—Nylon plastics.
Chandrasekhar—Mathematical Astrophysics.
Einstein—Theory of relativity.
Euclid—Science of geometry.
Freud—Doctrine of Psycho-analysis.
Hertz—Electrical waves.
Lawrence—Invention of cyclotron.
Lockyer—Helium gas.
Louis Braille—Perfected his system of reading and writing for the blind.
Mendel—Laws of heredity.
Mandeleev—Periodic Table.
Nobel—Dynamite.
Parkes—Celluloid.
Parsons—Steam turbine.
Perkin—‘Mauve dye’.
Planck—Quantum theory.
Plimsoll—Introduced a line of demarcation on the ships beyond which the ships
cannot be loaded.
Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen.
diamond formation.
relation to heat.
Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.
Rohmkorff—Induction coil.
Rutherford—Atomic Research; succeeded in splitting the atom for the first time
in 1918.
Shalimar—Paints.
Austin—Motor Car.
Bell, Graham—Telephone.
Berliner—Microphone.
Brequet—Helicopter.
Bushwell—Submarine.
Caxton—Printing Press.
Colt—Revolver.
Daimler—Gas engine.
Dunlop—Pneumatic tyre.
Edison—First electric bulb and gramophone.
Faraday—Dynamo.
Fulton—Stream boat.
Galileo—Telescope.
Gillette—Safety razor.
Guttenburg—Art of Printing.
Howe—Sewing Machine.
Huygens—Pendulum clock.
Macmillan—Bicycle (1842).
Mauser—Magazine of rifle.
Montgolfier—Balloon (1883)
Pascal—Calculating Machine.
Sholes—Typewriter.
Stephenson—Railway engine.
Swinton—Military tank.
Torricelli—Barometer.
Waterman—Fountain pen.
Zeiss—Lenses; Camera.
Eijkman—Cause of Beri-Beri.
Finsen—Discovered curative effect of ultra violet rays; photography.
Harvey—Circulation of blood.
Hahnemann—Homoeopathy (founder).
Jenner—Smallpox Vaccination.
Koch—Tubercle Bacillus.
Lainnec—Stethoscope.
Waksman—Streptomycin.