Arxiu de la categoria: Inventors

Samuel Colt

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Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He founded “Fire-Armas”. He was born on 19th of Julay 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut. His mother was Sarah Caldwell and his father Cristopher Colt. His father had a textile factory. He loved the experiments with explosives. When he was young, he experimented with explosives at school, and he did an explosion that destroyed part of the school. On a voyage in ship he had one idea to improve the revolver. He practiced this idea and in 1835-1836 he invented the revolver of six bullets Colt. In 1843 he invented the 1st naval mine by remote control. He died in Hartford the 10th of January 1862, when he was 47 years old.

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Karl Benz

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He was born on 25th November 1844 in Mühlburg, He was from in Germany. He is a creator of Mercedes-Benz autos. Her wife was are Bertha Benz. On 1893 he created his her first car. He was an automobile creator and manufacturer. He is considered a creator  of automobile.He died on 4th April 1929 in Ladenbourg.

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Louis Braille

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Louis Braille was borne on 4/1/1809 and he died dies in France on 6/1/1852 because he dies for “Tuberculosis”. This man is was a professor beafore the to be an inventor for de Braille code. Before this death It’s He was a very famous professor, because he invented a Braille code, the letters of the blinds.

Archimedes

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 He was born in 287 b. C. In Siracusa, Italy. He was from Italy. His father was Phidias, an astronomer. He studied in Alexandria, Egypt. He did important discoveries, for example: The golden crown, Archimedes screw, Archimedes claw, the heat ray and wrote the first rigorous explanation of the lever. He was a physic, an engineer, an inventor, an astronomer and a greek mathematician. Are known Only some details about his life are known. He is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. He lived to 75 years old. He died in 212 b. C. In Siracusa, Italy because a soldier killed him, although he had orders was not done any harm.

Source: Wikipedia.

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Dictionary Diccionari:

Screw: Tornillo.

Heat: Calor.

Lever: Palanca.

Although: Aunque.

Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pateur was a French scientist. He was born on 27th December 1882 in Dôle (France French). He was a teacher in the University of Strasbourg in 1847-1853. He studied in Besançon and in Paris. He discovered much many illnesses and bacterium. He won the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society(1856). He died on 28th September 1895 in Marnes-la-Coquette(France French).

Source: Wikipedia and http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/p/pasteur.htm

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Erik Rotheim

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Erik Andreas Rotheim was born on 19th of September 1898 in Kristiania. He was from Norway Norwegian. He lived in Switzerland. He was a professional chemical engineer and inventor. He invented the airsol aerosol in 1925. He was 27 years old when he invented the aerosol spray can. Erik died on 18th of September 1938.

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AUGUSTE PICCARD

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He was born on 28th January 1884. He was from Switzerland. His father was Jacques Piccard. He studied in University of Basilea. He lived in Basilea. He was a teacher, explorer, physical, inventor and  mechanical. He was 53 years old when he explorer underwater exploration.

Source:Viquipèdia.

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Wernher Von Braun

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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was born in Polonia in 23/3/1912. He lived in Germany and in USA. He was married with Maria Luise von Quistorp. Maria Luise was born in 1947 and died in 1977. He was a rocket inventor. He studied in the technical university of Berlin. He invented the rocket V2, that was used in World War 2. He invented the rocket Saturn V, that took man to the moon. He was built in the NASA. He died in USA in 16/6/1977.

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Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on 12th February 1809.

His father was Robert and his mother was Susannah. He studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He worked as a naturalist in the ship Beagle. He travelled around the world for five years.

When he was 27, he discovered the evolution theory. He wrote the famous book “The Origin of the Species” published in 1859. He died on 19th April, 1882 in Kent, England.

Source: wikipedia

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