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Pramod Karan Sethi Biography
doctorDied: January 6, 2008 (Jaipur, India) Best Known as: inventor of a prosthesis called the Jaipur foot Dr. Sethi invented the first affordable…Ray McIntire Biography
inventorBorn: 24 August 1918Best Known as: inventor of extruded polystyrene foam Clarence “Kelly“ Johnson invented textruded polystyrene foam which has become…Richard Knerr Biography
toy inventor and entrepeneurDied: January 14, 2008 (Arcadia, California) Best Known as: creator of the Hoola Hoop, the Superball, and the Frisbee…Robert Adler Biography
physicist and inventorDied: Feb. 15, 2007 (Boise, Idaho) Inventor who held about 200 U.S. patents, the most famous of which was the first wireless television…Robert Metcalfe Biography
inventorBorn: 1946 With his invention of Ethernet, Metcalfe created a way to link computers to one another and to the Internet. Ethernet is the most widely used…Ruth Benerito Biography
inventorBorn: 12 January 1916Best Known as: inventor of wrinkle-free cotton Ruth Benerito, a chemist, is widely known for her development of wrinkle-free…Wael Ghonim Biography
Egyptian protest leaderBorn: Dec. 23, 1980Birthplace: Cario, Egypt Ghonim, a marketing manager for Google, shot to international fame in February 2011 as the catalyst…Willem Einthoven Biography
inventorBorn: 21 May 1860Best Known as: inventor of the first reliable electrocardiogram Willem Einthoven produced the first instrument to detect the…Dr. Willem J. Kolff Biography
doctorBorn: February 14, 1911Died: February 11, 2009 (Pennsylvania, USA) Best Known as: pioneering doctor Dr. Willem J. Kolff invented the first artificial…William Goddard Biography
inventorBorn: 1913Died: 1997 Goddard and Lynott's invention of magnetic disk storage while with IBM was a major advancement in mass-storage technology,…Trending
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