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| your own Business By Howard Schwartz | | | | Eli Whitney (1765-1825) invented the cotton |
| | | | gin in 1794. The cottongin is a machine that |
| Who are the most Famous Investors in History? | | | | separates seeds, hulls and other |
| New Invention Website: Who-Invented.org New | | | | unwantedmaterials from cotton after it has |
| survey reviewing the most famous inventors | | | | been picked. |
| inthe world. | | | | |
| | | | Johannes Gutenberg (1394-1468) was a German |
| The top ten most famous inventors and their | | | | goldsmith and inventorbest known for the |
| inventions are asfollows: | | | | Gutenberg press, an innovative printing |
| | | | machinethat used movable type. |
| Thomas Edison (1847-1931), the first great | | | | |
| invention developed by | | | | John Logie Baird (1888-1946) is remembered as |
| | | | the inventor ofmechanical television. Baird |
| Thomas Edison was the tin foil phonograph. A | | | | also patented inventions related toradar and |
| prolific producer, | | | | fiber optics. |
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| Edison is also known for his work with light | | | | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) invented the |
| bulbs, electricity,film and audio devices, | | | | lightning rod, the ironfurnace stove or |
| and much more. | | | | Franklin Stove, bifocal glasses, and the |
| | | | odometer. |
| Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1869), in 1876, | | | | |
| at the age of 29, | | | | Henry Ford (1863-1947) improved the "assembly |
| | | | line" for automobilemanufacturing, received a |
| Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone. | | | | patent for a transmission mechanism, |
| Among one of his firstinnovations after the | | | | andpopularized the gas-powered car with the |
| telephone was the photo phone, a device | | | | Model-T. |
| thatenabled sound to be transmitted on a beam | | | | |
| of light. | | | | James Naismith (1861-1939) was a Canadian |
| | | | physical educationinstructor who invented |
| George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an | | | | basketball in 1891. |
| agricultural chemist whoinvented three | | | | |
| hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more | | | | Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) invented a |
| uses forsoybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes | | | | punch-card tabulationmachine system for |
| and changed the history ofagriculture in the | | | | statistical computation. |
| south. | | | | |