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Alexander Graham Bell

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About Alexander Graham Bell

Scientist, innovator, and inventor known for patenting the first practical telephone. He also had groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics and served as the second president of the National Geographic Society.

Early life

He created a dehusking machine to help his best friend with his work.

Trivia

He refused to have his greatest invention in his study, as he considered it a sidetrack from his real work, which was aiding the deaf.

Family of Alexander Graham Bell

He married Mabel Hubbard on July 11, 1877. He and Mabel had four children: Robert, Elsie, Marian and Edward.

Close associates of Alexander Graham Bell

He was an eminent scientist and inventor, like Thomas Edison.  He was the one who introduced Helen Keller’s father to Annie Sullivan. 

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Simone Giertz

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About Simone Giertz

Swedish inventor known for her work in robotics innovation. She has documented her work on her self-titled YouTube channel, where she has gained popularity for her comedic demonstrations of her robotic inventions. 

Early life

She dropped out after one year of college, where she was studying physics. She then studied robotics at Hyper Island in Stockholm, Sweden. She worked as an MMA sports journalist before launching her channel. 

Trivia

She has earned more than 800,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel. One of her most popular videos there, “The Breakfast Machine,” has earned more than 1 million total views.

Family of Simone Giertz

Her mother, Caroline, has worked as a paranormal researcher on the Swedish TV series Det Okanda.

Close associates of Simone Giertz

She began collaborating with Adam Savage in 2016 on the popcorn feeding helmet invention.

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Nikola Tesla

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About Nikola Tesla

Electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist who invented the electrical motor, arc lighting, and AC power. He did high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York which later led to the invention of radio communication.

Early life

He was so proficient at doing calculus in his head that his teachers thought he was cheating.

Trivia

Though his work made him a lot of money, he spent most of it on the experiments themselves and lived much of his life in a series of hotels.

Family of Nikola Tesla

Had a brother named Dane and sisters named Milka, Angelina and Marica.

Close associates of Nikola Tesla

He worked for Thomas Edison but resigned after Edison refused to pay him the money he promised.

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Galileo Galilei

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About Galileo Galilei

Known as The Father of Science, his contributions included confirming the phases of Venus, discovering four of Jupiter’s moons, and inventing the thermoscope, the precursor to the thermometer. A major figure in the scientific revolution, his advocacy of the theory of heliocentricism, which postulated that the earth revolved around the sun, made him an enemy of the Catholic Church.

Early life

While training to become a doctor under his father’s wishes, he became fascinated with mathematics, which led him to study the stars.

Trivia

The Catholic Church arrested him under vehement suspicion of heresy for his defense of the heliocentric model, and he was forced to spend the remainder of his life under house arrest.

Family of Galileo Galilei

He had three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba: two daughters named Virginia and Livia and one son named Vincenzo.

Close associates of Galileo Galilei

Stephen Hawking, in his work On the Shoulders of Giants, celebrated Galileo for giving birth to modern science.

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Orville Wright

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About Orville Wright

Aviation pioneer who, with his brother, Wilbur Wright, invented three-axis control and flew the first successful, albeit brief, “flying machine” in 1903.

Early life

He dropped out of high school to pursue a career in the printing business with his brother Wilbur.

Trivia

He and his brother opened a bicycle repair shop in 1892.

Family of Orville Wright

His parents, Susan Koerner and Milton Wright, raised him with his six siblings. His father once gave him a toy helicopter invented by Alphonse Penaud.

Close associates of Orville Wright

One of his friends and classmates in high school was future poet and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar.

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Wilbur Wright

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About Wilbur Wright

Co-inventor and co-pilot of the first successful airplane, which he called a “flying machine.” His and his brother Orville’s planes were later used in WWI and set the stage for modern aviation.

Early life

He was an athletic child and lost his two front teeth in a hockey accident.

Trivia

His famous flight occurred on December 17, 1903 at a North Carolina beach.

Family of Wilbur Wright

He was the older of the two Wright Brothers. Neither he nor his brother Orville ever married.

Close associates of Wilbur Wright

He and his brother formed the Curtiss-Wright Corporation with Glenn Curtiss.

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Benjamin Franklin

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About Benjamin Franklin

Founding Father of the United States who became known for his political works, his writings, and for his contribution to the understanding of electricity, highlighted by his (possibly apocryphal) flying of a kite in a lightning storm. He also invented bifocal glasses, the catheter, the lightning rod, and a musical instrument called a glass harmonica.

Early life

He wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Dogood, and published provocative letters; in 1731, he joined a Masonic Lodge.

Trivia

He was the first United States Ambassador to France, where he advocated religious tolerance and paved the way for Louis XVI’s signing of the Edict of Versailles, which gave Catholics civil status in France.

Family of Benjamin Franklin

He established a common-law marriage to Deborah Reed in 1730 after her mother rejected him as a suitor; he had an illegitimate son named William Temple Franklin in 1762.

Close associates of Benjamin Franklin

He attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787 alongside other powerful political figures of the time, including George Washington.

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