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(OT) Add your top ten inventors in history

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Conundrum
Thu Sept 13 2012, 10:31AM Print
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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 		Link2 Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb and geodesic design of aircraft.

Probably about *6

Feel free to add to this thread.
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Proud Mary
Thu Sept 13 2012, 04:22PM
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 		Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (microscope)
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Thomas W
Thu Sept 13 2012, 05:10PM
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 		Nikola Tesla.... really guys, i expected this to be first!?!?!?!
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Proud Mary
Thu Sept 13 2012, 05:52PM
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 		Alessandro Volta - the battery - 'the voltaic pile'
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HV Enthusiast
Thu Sept 13 2012, 06:09PM
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 		1. Tesla
2. Tesla
3. Tesla
4. Tesla
5. Tesla
6. Tesla
7. Tesla
8. Tesla
9. Tesla
10. Tesla
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Sulaiman
Fri Sept 14 2012, 12:47PM
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 		Charles Pollak - he invented the electrolytic capacitor,
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld - he developed the principle for commercial use,

without the failure of these components my colleagues and I would only get half the work that we do now ;)
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Conundrum
Fri Sept 14 2012, 02:50PM
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 		Henry J Round, the real inventor of the LED.

-A
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Mattski
Fri Sept 14 2012, 03:09PM
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 		Edwin Armstrong who was an important figure in the early days of radio, inventor of the regenerative receiver, superheterodyne receiver, and FM radio. Unfortunately, he killed himself, at least in part due to legal fights with RCA and others over his inventions.
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Conundrum
Sat Sept 15 2012, 10:09AM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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 		Does Edison deserve to be in the top ten?
His early work on NiFe batteries led indirectly to NiMH.

Another inventor who should be on the list is Leonardo da Vinci, possibly the grandfather of powered flight.
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Ash Small
Sat Sept 15 2012, 08:52PM
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 		John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, Link2




(NB: This was long before the 'silicon diode' was invented.)
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