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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was an innovator, scientist, humanitarian, and educator. He invented peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, soybeans, rubber substitute, adhesives, foodstuffs, dyes, and pigments. He donated his life to encourage agricultural research. -
Bernard Léon Foucault's gyroscope
The pendulum was used for navigation in ships, planes, and rockets and to demonstrate how a pendulum could track the rotation of the Earth. -
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an innovator and a aerospace scientist. He developed a method to reach high altitudes. -
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
in 1899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen invented the Bunsen burner for research in isolating chemical substances