In the early 1800s, the world saw the first mechanical typing machine used with carbon paper — both were the inventions of an Italian named Pellegrino Turri. The development of the modern typewriter started there, and the equipment was finally standardized in 1910. This means that all typewrite...
Zhang applied his extensive knowledge of mechanics and gears in several of his inventions. He invented the world's first water-powered armillary sphere to assist astronomical observation; improved the inflow water clock by adding another tank; and invented the world's first seismoscope, whic...
This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture pioneers such as William Friese-Greene and Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and years in advance of that of Auguste and Louis Lumière, and William Kennedy Dickson (who did the moving image work for Thomas ...
Honorable Inventions:Genetic Engineering,In-Vitro Fertilization YOSHIKAZU TSUNO//Getty Images 1979: Sony Walkman “This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day.”—Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, February 1979. ...
Lillian Gilbreth contributed to industrial engineering by studying workplace patterns and ergonomics. She became the first female member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926. Laying the foundation for work in what is now known as human factors engineering and ergonomic design, Gilbre...
computer. Despite certain mechanical engineering problems it had all the basic ingredients of modern machines, using the binary system and today's standard separation of storage and control. Zuse completes Z3, world's first fully functional programmable computer in 1941. ...
Born in Lennep, Germany in 1845, Roentgen studied mechanical engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He went on to become a professor of physics at the universities of Strasbourg, Giessen, Würzburg and Munich, and his research ...
You might think that, of all this work, Tesla would have held his inventions in electrical engineering -- those that described a complete system of generators, transformers, transmission lines, motor and lighting -- dearest to his heart. But in 1913, Tesla received a patent for what he ...
Ada is recognized for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Later in her career, Ada Lovelace also translated Luigi Menabrea’s French transcription of Babbage’s Analytical Engine into English. Important contributions and achievements The ...
Prior to beginning his contributions to the science fiction genre with The Fifth Head of Cerberus in 1972, Wolfe was a mechanical engineering major who accepted a job with Procter & Gamble. During his employment, Wolfe devised a way for the unique, shingle-shaped Pringles chips to be fried an...