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Pearl B4 Swine
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C has to be Marie Curie, who 'discovered' radium & polonium, and enabled glow-in-the-dark wristwatches.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I am tempted to add James Dyson and his cyclone vacuum cleaner, however my D will be John Boyd Dunlop the Scotsman who invented the first practical pneumatic tyre ("tire" if you insist).
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Stetson
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I seem to recall there was a guy, name beginning with E, who invented a lot of the stuff we use every day. Helped us see in the dark and whatnot.
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Sir Kevin
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F is for Fermi, a rocket scientist.
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Jane R
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G is for Hans Geiger who was very keen on counting...
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Sioni Sais
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H is for Heisenberg who (ISTM) built the whole edifice of quantum mechanics on his uncertainty principle.
Nice one Werner!
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Piglet
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Maybe not an inventor in the strictest sense of the word, but there was a lot of inventiveness in the Mini designed by Alec Issigonis.
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Welease Woderwick
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Does James Prescott Joule count as an inventor? He was quite a guy for a brewer! His work on thermodynamics certainly led to enormous advances.
As far as I know Joule did NOT have a friend called Sandy!
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
F is for Fermi, a rocket scientist.
Was he? I thought he was the guy who constructed the first nuclear reactor (in a Chicago squash court, no less).
And I wouldn't be too sure about Heisenberg, you know ...
My wife will never forgive me if I don't mention William Thompson, better known as Lord Kelvin, the Scottish mathematician, scientist and engineer and the inventor of Absolutely Nothing.
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Welease Woderwick
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Alexander Lippisch was an aeronautical inventor and designed the Messerschmitt Me 163, a really amazing aircraft.
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Jane R
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M is for Albert Henry Munsell - inventor of the Munsell colo(u)r system.
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Welease Woderwick
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N - spare a thought for William Nelson who worked for General electric and invented a new form of motorised bicycle, then fell off and died during a test run.
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Jengie jon
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O - to keep in the theme of electricity that is running at the moment how about Georg Ohm the man behind Ohm's Law and Ohm's acoustic law (sorry to use tinyurl but both wikipedia entries that do not work otherwise).
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Pearl B4 Swine
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P is for Pythagoras who invented a goblet, or cup which is very tricky. The Trick Cup © Nevit Dilmen
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Jane R
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Q is for Q - inventor of the amphibious Aston Martin and many other gadgets to get Bond out of a tricky situation.
(are fictional inventors allowed?)
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Piglet
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Again, more a discoverer than an inventor, Carl Wilhelm Scheele deserves a mention for being the unfortunate chemist who discovered lots of things before the people who got the credit for discovering them did.
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ArachnidinElmet
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T is for Nikola Tesla, inventor of tonnes o' electrical stuff amongst other things. An eccentric genius, played by David Bowie in the film of 'The Prestige'.
Glad to arrive here in time for T, I was in 'Tesla' science class for school and have always had a soft spot. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Sir Kevin
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There are some lovely electric cars named after him: I've seen several of the big ones with four doors in this part of the country recently.
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Stetson
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According to wiki, William E. Upjohn "invented the easily digested friable pill". No clue what that means.
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Welease Woderwick
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Pierre Vernier invented the Vernier Scale which has been aiding designers and engineers ever since.
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Piglet
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W is for James Watt, who discovered/invented steam power.
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Sarkycow
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Originally posted by Stetson:
According to wiki, William E. Upjohn "invented the easily digested friable pill". No clue what that means.
The fore-runner of standard medical pills today - ones that can be broken by hand, and easily crushed into a powder. It means they dissolve fully in your stomach and give you the total dose of medication. Prior to this medicine was either bitter liquid or came in a hard casing which didn't always break down properly in the stomach.
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Stetson
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Thanks Sarky.
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Y is for Gunpei Yokoi who, the intranut assures me, invented the Game Boy.
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Welease Woderwick
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If you ever have a Turpentine Bath be sure to thank the memory of the inventor, one Alexander Zalmanov.
Next, how about Great Rock Albums or have we already that one?
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Lyda*Rose
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Abbey Road by the Beatles
Such a fond farewell. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif) (Let It Be doesn't really count.)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Baby James Harvest by Barclay James Harvest
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Pearl B4 Swine
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It looks like there are no takers for "C" , so I will move on to "D".
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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It's a shame that Close to the Edge by Yes didn't get a mention.
For E I'll go for Everyone is Everybody Else - Barclay James Harvest, again!
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Jane R
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F is for Flash Gordon by Queen.
"Flash, I love you - but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"
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Alaric the Goth
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
It's a shame that Close to the Edge by Yes didn't get a mention.
Indeed, so for G it's Yes again, 'Going for the One'.
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Sioni Sais
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Let's have a proper classic rock album with Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin.
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