Do you know who invented the microscope?

He was very well educated and a prolific writer in various subjects.

He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.

Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

The 1998 Inventor of the Year award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The unit's name is derived from the name of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms.

Influence The creator of this extremely important invention is only somewhat known outside East Asia.

Ernő Rubik ( born 13 July 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture.

This man is Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who passed away this past August.

John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 23 October 1921) was a Scots born veterinary surgeon.

History would know Lothar Meggendorfer as who else? the world's first true inventor of the children's pop up book.

He describes himself in his Global Voices profile as a Syrian in Brazil, but there is much more to this prolific contributor.

Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England.

For example, a Russian inventor produced a steam engine in 1766 and disappeared without a trace.

In his memoirs, Greenspan revealed that his favorite economist was Joseph Schumpeter, inventor of the concept of creative destruction.

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century.

The screenwriter of the series was Adam Słodowy, an inventor and TV personality who for decades hosted the Do it Yourself show on Polish national TV.

Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland FRSE(Hon) (November 14, 1863 February 23, 1944) was a Belgian born American chemist.

CA Based on the people we've seen at TED, I would say you're truly one of the two or three best inventors in the world right now.

Samuel O'Reilly was a successful New York tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo machine, which he patented in 1891.

A prolific runner since 2009, she has won six competitions over the marathon distance including the California International Marathon, San Diego Marathon, Los Angeles Marathon, Grandma's Marathon and the Twin Cities Marathon.

They include the inventor of a cloud computing service, the founder of an online luxury goods business, a developer of new banking technologies, and the creator of a social networking platform for doctors.

Kamen was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing the first drug infusion pump and starting a company, AutoSyringe , to market and manufacture the pump.

He is also prolific blogger who has become the voice of his country on many platforms, including Global Voices in Arabic, Mideast Youth and Jadaliyya , to name a few.

Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller ( July 12, 1895 July 1, 1983) was an American neo futuristic architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.

The baud unit is named after Émile Baudot, the inventor of the Baudot code for telegraphy, and is represented in accordance with the rules for SI units.

Col. Jacob Schick (September 16, 1877 July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.

He graduated from Alborz High School, and started his university studies at the School of Science at the University of Tehran for a year.

Her last post, on December 1, 2011, celebrates the release of Syrian blogger Hussein Ghrer, who was held by the Syrian authorities for 37 days. She blogs

Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 20 April 1918) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.

Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, Shukhov was the inventor of a new family of doubly curved structural forms.

In 1964, the Herman Miller (office equipment) company engaged Robert Propst, a prolific industrial designer, who came up with the concept of the Action Office which later evolved into the cubicle office furniture system.

And it's a fabulous event to just meet and talk to these people who make things and are there to just show them to you and talk about them and have a great conversation.

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry (the mathematical basis of technical drawing), and the father of differential geometry.

Another compelling explanation comes from a venture capitalist who credits Chinese society with copious reserves of entrepreneurial energy that derives, he believes, from the fact that Chinese culture attaches very little shame to failing in a business enterprise.

The prolific author or co author of over 30 books and over 300 scholarly articles has contributed to mathematical logic, philosophical logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, language theory, and the philosophy of science.

Louis Braille (, , 4 January 1809 6 January 1852) was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired.

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel ( March 18, 1858September 29, 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine.

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

Kamen is also the co inventor of a compressed air device that would launch a human into the air in order to quickly launch SWAT teams or other emergency workers to the roofs of tall, inaccessible buildings.

Then of course, at the dawn of aviation, all of the great inventors of the time like Hargreaves, like Langley, even Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who was flying this kite were doing so in the pursuit of aviation.

Well at TED2009, Tim Berners Lee himself, inventor of the Web, gave a talk where he said the next big thing is not to have your browser go out and find other people's articles about the data, but the raw data.

Frank Shuman (January 23, 1862 April 28, 1918) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer noted for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.