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Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and businessman from a mining town in southern Germany, invented the printing press in 1440. His method of printing can be credited not only for a revolution in the production of books, but also for fostering rapid development in the sciences, arts and religion through the transmission of texts. -
John Locke
Locke was a famous philosopher and political theorist in the seond half of the 17th century. His most important work was "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." He created a new focus and movement towards studying the human mind and how we acquire knowledge. Click here for more about Locke. -
Benjamin Franklin
He dedicated himself to the improvement of everyday life for the widest number of people and, in so doing, made an indelible mark on the emerging nation. His inventions include Swim fins, bifocals, a glass armonica, watertight bulkheads for ships, the lightning rod, an odometer, and the wood stove (called the Franklin stove). He is also very famous for his investigation and work in the area of electricity. -
Charles Darwin
Wrote "The Origin of Species" and was a major proponent of the theory of evolution through the process of natural selection. -
Francis Galton
He created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture". -
William James
James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and an influential philosopher. He was associated with pragmatism and considered my many as the "Father of American psychology". He published "The Principles of Pyschology" in 1890. -
The Wright Brothers
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers piloted the first powered airplane. They mastered glided flight previously, but no automobile manufacture could supply an engine both light enough and powerful enough for them so they designed and built their own! -
Lewis Terman
Terman joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1910, where he became professor of education in 1916, the year he published "The Measurement of Intelligence", a guide for his Stanford revision and enlargement of the earlier Binet-Simon intelligence scale developed in France. Scoring on the test was signified by the intelligence quotient, or IQ, which takes account of both chronological age and mental age so that the average child of any age has an IQ of 100. -
Walt Disney
Walt and Roy Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio and went on to create iconic characters, entertainment, and amuzement parks.
