Find the number such that if the whole of it is added to one-seventh of it the result will be nineteen. ~ The Ahmes Papyrus Ancient Egyptian mathematics problem from c. 2200 BC
There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together. ~ Fred Hoyle 1915 to 2001
Ivan Kulibin (1735–1818) Russia – egg-shaped clock candle searchlight elevator using screw mechanisms a self-rolling carriage featuring a flywheel brake gear box and bearing an early optical telegraph.
Jacob Davis (1868–1908) USA – riveted jeans.
Philip Diehl (1847–1913) USA – Ceiling fan electric sewing machine.
Christopher Cockerell (1910–1999) UK – Hovercraft.
Royal Earl House (1814–1895) USA – first Printing telegraph.
Simon Sze (born 1936) Taiwan/USA together with Dawon Kahng (1931–1992) South Korea – Floating-gate MOSFET.
Temple Grandin (born 1945) Inventor of the squeeze machine and humane abattoirs..
Lewis Latimer (1848–1928) USA – Invented the modern day light bulb.
William Crookes (1832–1919) UK – Crookes radiometer Crookes tube.
Chester Carlson (1906–1968) USA – Xerography.
Gerd Binnig (born 1947) with Christoph Gerber (?–) and with Calvin Quate (born 1923) Germany/Switzerland/USA – Atomic force microscope.
Lisitsyn brothers Ivan Fyodorovich and Nazar Fyodorovich Russia – samovar (the first documented makers).
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953) Poland / Germany – Czochralski process (crystal growth).
Leonty Shamshurenkov (1687–1758) Russia – first self-propelling carriage (a precursor to both bicycle and automobile) projects of an original odometer and self-propelling sledge.
Daniel Axelrod (inv. 1980) USA – Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope.
Antonio Pacinotti (1841–1912) Italy – Pacinotti dynamo.
Robert Koch (1843–1910) Germany – method for culturing bacteria on solid media.
Gyula Takátsy (1914–1980) Hungary – first Microtiter plate.
Boris Mamyrin (1919–2007) Russia – reflectron (ion mirror).
Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi (c. 940–1000) Persia/Iran – astronomical sextant.
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Find the number such that if the whole of it is added to one-seventh of it the result will be nineteen. ~ The Ahmes Papyrus Ancient Egyptian mathematics problem from c. 2200 BC
I believe that new mathematical schemata new systems of axioms certainly new systems of mathematical structures will be suggested by the study of the living world. ~ Stan Ulam 1909 – 1984 - Mathematician
This is an era of specialists each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. ~ Rachel Carson 1907 to 1964 - Marine Biologist
If your experiment needs statistics you ought to have done a better experiment. - Ernest Rutherford 1871 to 1937 Physicist
But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature it has another effect not less valuable on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent. ~ James Clerk Maxwell 1831 to 1879
In reality a theory in natural science cannot be without experimental foundations; physics in particular comes from experimental work. ~ Samuel C. C. Ting b. 1936
Nearly 2.5 billion years of prokaryotic cells and nothing else – two-thirds of life’s history in stasis at the lowest level of recorded complexity… Why did life remain at stage 1 for two-thirds of its history if complexity offers such benefits? ~ Stephen Jay Gould 1941 to 2002 - Paleontologist
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