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Born June 16, 1806 • England
Died January 26, 1885 (aged 78) • Australia
Notable Works “Experimental Guide to Chemistry”
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
British scientist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist and chemist
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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ball bearing. Disassembled ball bearing. rotational friction Automobile Industry, Engineering, Industry, Machine Part, Metal Industry, Sphere, Steel, Wheel
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