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Famous Inventors : A to Z

Read all about famous inventors and the history of their inventions.

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi invented the neutronic reactor and won the nobel prize for physics.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Henry Ford invented the assembly line for automobile manufacturing, the the designed the famous Model T.

Max Factor

Biography of makeup king Max Factor.

The Planet's Friendly Genius - Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller - biography of an inventor - a designer and architect of the geodesic dome and dymaxion houses and cars.

The Planet's Friendly Genius - Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller - architect of the geodesic dome - Richard Buckminster Fuller believed technology could save the World from itself providing it is properly used.

Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)

Standard Time was invented by Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming in 1878. sp Sir Sanford Fleming.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod - iron furnace stove - bifocal glasses and odometer - sp Ben Franklin.

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