Famous Inventors

Famous Inventors
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Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan immunologist, who shared the 1980Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self". His colleagues andshared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell. His brother is well-known philosopher Paul Benacerraf.
After his medical internship and US Army service (1945–48), and working at the military hospital of Nancy, he became a researcher at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1948–50). He performed research in Paris (1950–56), relocated to New York University (1956–68),moved to the National Institutes of Health (1968–70), then joined Harvard University (1970–91), concurrently serving the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (1980). He began studies of allergies in 1948, and discovered the Ir (immune response) genes that govern transplant rejection (1960s).

Victor Ochoa
Was the Mexican American inventor of the Ochoa plane. And the inventor of a windmill,magnetic brakes, a wrench, and a reversible motor. His best known invention, the Ochoa plane was a small flying machine with collapsible wings. Mexican inventor Victor Ochoa was also a Mexican revolutionary. According to the Smithsonian, Victor Ochoa had a reward of $50,000 offered for his delivery dead or alive to Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico. Ochoa was a revolutionist who sought to overthrowthe rule of Mexico’s chief executive in the early nineties.

Abraham Darby I
Was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an English Quakerfamily that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by cokerather than charcoal. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a rawmaterial for the Industrial Revolution. In 1712 Darby offered to instruct William Rawlinson, a fellow Quaker and ironmaster, in the techniques of smelting with coke. Apparently, Rawlinson, the founder of the Backbarrow Iron Company in Furness, did not take up the offer. In 1714, Darby and his partners renewed their lease (effective from 1717) and then built a second blast furnace. This wasslightly more productive in the 1720s than the Old Blast Furnace. The Company also secured Vale Royal Furnace in central Cheshire, but this did not come into their possession before Abraham Darby's death. Afterward, it was taken over by Thomas Baylies with other partners.

Hua Sui
Was a Chinese scholar and printer of Wuxi, Jiangsu province during the Ming Dynasty. He belonged to the wealthy Huafamily that was renowned throughout the region. Hua Sui is best known for creating China's first metal movable type printing in 1490 AD. Metal movable type printing had been invented in Korea during the earlier 13th century, but there is no concrete evidence that suggests Hua Sui's metal type print was influenced by Korean printing. In more recent times (late 13th century), type has also been made oftin by casting. It is strung on an iron wire, and thus made fast in the columns of the form, in order to print books with it. But none of this type took ink readily, and it made untidy printing in most cases. For that reason they were not used long.
Leonardo da Vinci:
was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist,geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance.
Inventions:
A steam cannon is a cannon that launches a projectile using only heat and water. The first steam cannon was designed by Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse. Leonardo da Vinci was also known to have designed one. The device would consist of a large metal tube,...