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Also Known As Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler
Born May 26, 1815 • Germany
Died January 24, 1879 (aged 63) • BonnGermany
Inventions Geissler discharge tube

Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Polish-born Dutch physicist
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
American inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Farnsworth
American inventor
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
British scientist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor

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