Did you know we spend 2. The great inventors of the past are a constant source of inspiration for all of us at Thales, so we've put together our very own list of the Top 10 inventors of all time.
Let us know what you think. Did we leave anybody out? Call us biased, but we think the top slot goes to Thales of Miletus, who lived in the 6 th century BC. He was the father of Western philosophy and one of the first people to explain natural phenomena without reference to mythology—technically making him the world's first scientist too.
He even invented mathematics. How cool is that? Leonardo was an all-round genius. Not content with being a Renaissance artist and a visionary scientist, he also stands out as one of history's most brilliant engineers. Long before they were technically feasible, he invented the helicopter and the battle tank. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Mary Bellis. Inventions Expert. Mary Bellis covered inventions and inventors for ThoughtCo for 18 years. She is known for her independent films and documentaries, including one about Alexander Graham Bell.
Updated December 20, Featured Video. Changing the World It's no coincidence that some of the most famous inventors come from all walks of life. To Nilles, the answer was obvious: Get people off the road by removing the requirement that they come into the office to work.
With that goal in mind, he began working with a team at the University of Southern California to design, define and test a telework initiative at an insurance company using satellite offices, Nilles said in an interview with BizTech magazine.
Over the past 40 years, teleworking has grown from a wild and crazy idea to an acceptable way of life, but one sweeping change Nilles sees coming down the road is the revolution of the office space. Aside from a decreasing need for large amounts of commercial office space, the nature of what people do in the office is changing as well.
The office now, for many, is a place for communicating face to face. Sure, you could only talk on it for 35 minutes, but before the DynaTAC, the only option users had for making a call were telephones tethered to the wall.
As Cooper told the BBC , the team at Motorola had the unenviable challenge of figuring out for the first time how to pack all of the necessary technology into a self-contained mobile device. There was no blueprint upon which they could improve.
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Once Cooper took the phone wireless, the sky has truly been the limit for modern communication. So the two areas that I talk a lot about and really believe are important are the wireless impact on medical technology and on social networking.
Both of those two things are going to be revolutionary. His impact on technology: Gerald Lawson created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F.
That invention pushed the video game industry forward into a flexible, diverse future — a world in which games were no longer married to their hardware think Pong. Once players could switch games on a whim, game developers and software companies flourished. And yet, Lawson is not a well-known name in video game history — or tech history, for that matter. This, despite the fact that he was one of the few black members of the historic Homebrew Computer Club, which counted Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as members.
Lawson died last year of complications from diabetes. After spending eight years with Fairchild Semiconductor, the makers of the Channel F video game console he helped pioneer, Lawson left and started his own company, VideoSoft, which produced cartridge games for the Atari , the system that ultimately made the Channel F obsolete.
However, Marc is more of a software person, while his father was fond of hardware. Over time, Marc has grown to appreciate where his father was coming from. So being programmers, we'll write code without even understanding the architecture of the underlying hardware and what we can really do with it, because programming is abstracted. As I got a little older, I started to get a little bit more into the hardware side of things.
He was more interested in the technology behind video games than in playing them. Select Topics from the menu at the top of the page. This page has links to famous inventors and inventions like the Wright Brothers and The Invention of the Internet.
AnyQuestions can't control which ads a website shows. ExplainThatStuff This website is all about how technology works and includes information about how different technologies were invented. Search for 'inventions' using the bar at the top of the page. This will bring up general articles like Inventors and inventions and History of invention: a science and technology timeline. There are also articles about the history of particular inventions, like cars and computers.
Tips: Look at the date on each article to see when the information was last updated. Britannica School This is an online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Choose the level best suited to you. Search for an invention or inventor eg wheel. Or find inventors by selecting Biographies from the main page. In the box for Known for, find the heading for Technology , and select Invention. Select an inventor eg Hedy Lamarr , a famous actress who developed a device that is now part of cellphone, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technology.
Science Gale In Context This database has lots of articles from encyclopedias, magazines and journals. Search using keywords eg steam engines. Limit your results by subject or type of information. Biography Gale In Context This database includes historical and current biographies of famous people.
Go to Browse People and from the Topics menu choose Inventors. The list is in alphabetical order by surname. Choose an inventor eg Louis Braille. Or search using keywords such as Richard Pearse. World History Gale In Context This database provides an overview of world history that includes inventors and inventions. Search using keywords such as clocks. Or you can chat with one of our AnyQuestions librarians between 1 and 6pm Monday to Friday and they will help you online. Some EPIC databases may also be available through your public library.
Books There are a number of books and stories that have been written about inventors and inventing - check out your local public or school library to see what they have there. The greatest inventions of all time by Jillian Powell. Great inventors from A to Z by Valter Fogato.
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