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Alfred Nobel, Sweden
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Charles Brush invented open coiled dynamo. (generator) Produce steady current of electricity.
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ball-point, for marking on rough surfaces John H. Loud, U.S., 1888
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First true automobile without carriage and motor. René Panhard, Emile Lavassor, France.
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Rudolf Diesel, Germany
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Using a Crookes' tube, demonstrated that cathode rays consisted of units of electrical current made up of negatively charged particles of subatomic size. Believing them to be integral to all matter, in "Cathode Rays," he hypothesized a model of atomic structure in which negatively charged particles, or electrons, were embedded in a sphere of positive electricity
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King Gillete made the first razor.
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Georges Claude first neon lamp displayed.
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Joesph John Thomson discovered stable isotopes.