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Nobel, Alfred - Man Behind the Prizes
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http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/
Information from the official Nobel Prize site.
Life of John Fitch
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http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/westcott/
The inventor of the steam boat. Full text of thus 1857 publication by Thompson Westcott.
Martin, Horace G.
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http://www.telegraph-history.org/horace-g-martin/
Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States.
Gorrie's Fridge
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http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~ihas/gorrie/fridge.htm
An early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice.
structurae: Gustave Eiffel
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http://www.structurae.de/en/people/data/des0009.html
Images, biography, works, references and links.
Denk, Robert
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http://www.benduhn.homepage.t-online.de/denk/summary.html
The inventor of the tubeless radio used an unknown solid-state effect, which was never rediscovered.
Ephraimshay.com
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http://www.ephraimshay.com/
Features transcriptions of diary entries that pertain to the making of his invention, the Shay locamotive engine. Page includes related resource links.
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