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Tin can
A tin can is a metal container used as an opaque container for liquids and preserved products. The most common materials of manufacture are tinplate and aluminium. -
Peter Duran
1766 - 1822 (56 years)
Peter Durand was an English merchant who is widely credited with receiving the first patent for the idea of preserving food using tin cans. The patent was granted on 25 August 1810 by King George III of the United Kingdom. -
René Laënnec
1781 - 1826 (45 years)
René Théophile Laënnec was a French medic and inventor of the stethoscope. In 1816, due to the embarrassment the doctor felt about put his ear close to his patients chests and also to the difficulty of perceiving noises in fat patients, he created a 30 cm long cylinder, the origin of the instrument. -
Stethoscope
The stethoscope is an acoustic device used in medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy, speech therapy and veterinary medicine, for auscultation or hearing the internal sounds of the body. -
Microphone
Is an input device used to transform sound waves into electrical energy and vice versa in sound recording and reproduction processes; it consists essentially of a diaphragm attracted by an electromagnet, which, by vibrating, modifies the current transmitted by different pressures to a circuit. -
Charles Wheatstone
1802 - 1875 (73 years)
Charles Wheatstone was a British scientist and inventor, who came to prominence during the Victorian era, including the stereoscope, the Playfair technique of coding, and the kaleidophone. -
Revolver
The revolver is a repetition fire-arm that is characterized by carrying the ammunition in a drum, unlike the pistol, which usually carry the ammunition in a loader. -
Samuel Colt
1841 - 1862 (47 years old)
Samuel Colt was an American inventor and businessman famous for his work in the arms industry. He got the idea of the revolver on a trip to India, where he saw a prototype of it in bad condition, so when he returned home he designed a better model and started selling them. -
Telegraph
A telegraph is an apparatus or device that uses electrical signals to transmit coded text messages, like Morse code, over wire lines or radio communications. -
Samuel Morse
1791 - 1872 (81 years)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who, along with his associate Alfred Vail, invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States. -
Safety Pin
A safety pin is a type of pin with a hooked end to hold the point of the pin, thus preventing it from opening and ceasing to perform its function; it also prevents accidental injury when worn on clothing. It can be used both as a clothing accessory and as an earring. -
Walter Hunt
1796 - 1859 (63 years)
Walter Hunt was an American engineer and inventor. He lived and worked in the state of New York where he had a prolific life as an inventor, especially noted for such popular creations as the sewing machine, the safety pin and the forerunner of the Winchester rifle, among others. -
Lift
An elevator device used to transport people or things from one floor to another in a building. -
Elisha Graves Otis
1811 - 1861 (50 years)
Elisha Otis Graves was an American inventor of an elevator safety device and lift manufacturer and founder of the Otis Elevator Company, the world's leading manufacturer of lift and escalator systems -
Dinamyte
The dynamite is a very powerful explosive composed of nitroglycerin, a liquid explosive substance at room temperature and very unstable that, when absorbed in a solid medium, becomes a more stable explosive. -
Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896 (63 years old)
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, writer and inventor, famous for the invention of dynamite and for creating the prizes Nobel, which is awarded every year to persons who have made remarkable research, discoveries or contributions to humanity. -
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a world-famous soda, being the best-selling soda on the planet. It began as a medicine sold in pharmacies in the United States, the formula of the medicinal principle was a secret syrup and natural water known as "Coca Pemberton Wine". -
John Pemberton
1831 - 1888 (57 years)
John Stith Pemberton was an American pharmaceutical chemist and veteran of the Confederate States Army. He is known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. -
Airplane
An aeroplane is an aircraft equipped with wings and a space to carry things, and capable of flight powered by one or more engines. Aeroplanes include monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes. -
Clément Ader
Clément Ader was a French engineer and aviator. In 1880 he installed the first telephone line in Paris. He is famous especially for being the inventor of the airplane