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Leonardo Da Vinci

History; World history

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, ...

Galileo

History; World history

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[3] – 8 January 1642), often known mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher ...

Tim Berners Lee

History; World history

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide ...

Archimedes of Syracuse

History; World history

Archimedes of Syracuse was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the ...

Thomas Edison

History; World history

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, ...

The Wright Brothers

History; World history

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were ...

Benjamin Franklin

History; World history

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American". A world-renowned polymath, Franklin was a ...