John Ernst Worrell Keely was an American inventor from Philadelphia who claimed to have discovered a new motive power which was originally described as “vaporic” or “etheric” force, and later as an unnamed force based on “vibratory sympathy,” but which produced “interatomic ether” from water and air. Take a look below for 27 more interesting…
26 Strange And Interesting Facts About Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received the patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. Take a look below for 26 more strange and interesting facts about Charles Goodyear. 1. Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process…
30 Strange And Interesting Facts About Otto Von Guericke
Otto von Guericke was a German scientist, inventor, and politician. His major scientific achievements were the establishment of the physics of vacuums, the discovery of an experimental method for clearly demonstrating electrostatic repulsion, and his advocacy of the reality of “action at a distance” and of “absolute space.” Take a look below for 30 more…
25 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Ernst Werner Von Siemens
Ernst Werner Siemens was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemen’s name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the Siemens. He was also the founder of the electrical and telecommunications company Siemens. Take a look below for 25 more fascinating and interesting facts about Ernst Werner von Siemens. 1. Siemens was born…
27 Fun And Interesting Facts About Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine, and for his mysterious death. Diesel was the subject of the 1942 film Diesel. Take a look below for 27 more fun and interesting facts about Rudolf Diesel. 1. Diesel was born in Paris, France in…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. Take a look below for 30…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. He’s credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, “in recognition of their…
30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Samuel Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating facts about Samuel Morse. 1. He was a…
30 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer and environmental activist. At the age of 25, in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize, which he won for making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New…
30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. Take a look below for 30 more…