100 Scientists Who Made History

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Nikola Tesla Switched-on supplier of the ELECTRIC CURRENT This electric eccentric created countless inventions that led to the global generation of power. By the way… y I took risks with m ing a us experiments, even caso badly building to vibrate t there that people though uake! had been an earthq

Visionary inventor Born in 1856, Tesla enjoyed watching his mother invent various domestic appliances at home. After college, he took a job at the Central Telephone Exchange in Budapest, Hungary, in 1880. He said that seeing all the flashing lights sparked VISIONS OF NEW INVENTIONS. The first was a machine that amplified the sound on a telephone.

Who came before… The relationship between electromagnetic force and electric current was first established by French physicist André-MArie AMpère in 1820.

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Tesla’s induction motor used a rotating magnetic field to create movement. In 1822, British physicist peter BArlow invented a basic electric machine called Barlow’s wheel, which was the first device to be powered by electromagnetism.


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Acknowledgments

13min
page 128

Index

4min
page 127

Let’s applaud

3min
pages 124-125

Glossary

2min
page 126

Communicators

1min
pages 122-123

Rachel Carson

1min
page 121

Ali Javan

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page 120

Alfred Nobel

2min
pages 118-119

Alan Turing

2min
pages 116-117

Joseph Lister

2min
pages 114-115

Wilhelm Röntgen

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page 110

C V Raman

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page 111

Computing creatives Ada Lovelace

1min
pages 108-109

Nikola Tesla

2min
pages 112-113

Rudolf Diesel

1min
page 107

James Watt

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page 106

Stephen Hawking

2min
pages 102-105

Vera Rubin

2min
pages 100-101

Edwin Hubble

2min
pages 98-99

Quantum physicists James Chadwick

2min
pages 96-97

Penzias and Wilson

2min
pages 94-95

Albert Einstein

2min
pages 90-91

J Robert Oppenheimer

2min
pages 92-93

Ernest Rutherford

2min
pages 88-89

James Clerk Maxwell

2min
pages 86-87

Isaac Newton

2min
pages 84-85

Edmond Halley

1min
page 82

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

1min
page 83

Nicolaus Copernicus

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page 77

Christiaan Huygens

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page 81

Galileo Galilei

2min
pages 78-79

Johannes Kepler

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page 80

Leonardo da Vinci

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page 76

Barbara McClintock

2min
pages 72-75

Alice Ball

2min
pages 68-69

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

2min
pages 70-71

The Curies

2min
pages 66-67

Inventive chemists

1min
pages 64-65

Dmitri Mendeleev

2min
pages 62-63

Louis Pasteur

2min
pages 60-61

Michael Faraday

2min
pages 58-59

Alessandro Volta

2min
pages 56-57

Joseph Priestley

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Joseph Black

1min
page 54

Robert Boyle

2min
pages 52-53

Medical masterminds

2min
pages 48-51

Charles David Keeling

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page 47

Inge Lehmann

2min
pages 44-45

James Lovelock

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Franklin, Crick and Watson

2min
pages 42-43

Alexander Fleming

2min
pages 40-41

Thomas Hunt Morgan

1min
page 39

Nettie Stevens

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page 38

Gregor Mendel

2min
pages 36-37

Seeing things Alhazen

2min
pages 30-31

Charles Darwin

2min
pages 34-35

Robert Hooke

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page 32

Mary Anning

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Fibonacci

2min
pages 22-23

Hildegard of Bingen

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page 28

Averroës

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Zhang Heng

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Avicenna

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Hippocrates

2min
pages 14-15

Al-Khwˉarizmˉı

2min
pages 18-19

Aristotle

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pages 8-9

Claudius Galen

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Greek greats Pythagoras Empedocles Democritus

1min
pages 10-11

Archimedes

2min
pages 12-13
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