• John Willis, (ca. 1575 – 28 November 1625) was a British clergyman, stenographer and mnemonician. He developed a simple style of shorthand based on the...
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  • John Willis may refer to: John Willis (basketball) (born 1952), American-Israeli basketball player John Willis (inventor) (c. 1575–1625), British clergyman...
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  • discovered by John Herschel. William Willis was the son of British engraver of landscapes, and inventor of the anilin printing, process William Willis. William...
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    Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 7, 1950) was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air conditioning. Carrier invented...
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    pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage...
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    In 1853 the church had its first Willis organ built (it was replaced in 1883 and repaired in 1997), with Henry Willis himself employed as the organist...
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  • Autobiography: "A self taught mathematician, great in his way, and afterwards inventor of what is now call'd Hadley's Quadrant. But he knew little out of his...
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    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web...
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  • Willis (inventor) (1841–1923), British inventor William Willis (mayor) (1794–1870), American politician, Mayor of Portland, Maine William J. Willis (1932–2012)...
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  • geology. April 29 (bapt.) – John Arbuthnot, Scottish-born polymath (died 1735) May 2 – Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing (died...
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  • military engineer Thomas Carr (engineer) (1824-1874) - inventor of the Carr's disintegrator Willis Carrier (1876–1950) – pioneered the design and manufacture...
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  • Miles Dyson (category Fictional inventors)
    is a character in the sci-fi franchise Terminator. He is the original inventor of the microprocessor which would lead to the development of Skynet, an...
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  • (1840 – 1934). His family had a history of inventing; his father was an inventor in the field of automobile tires while his maternal grandfather, James...
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    Peter Henlein (category 16th-century German inventors)
    clockmaker, and watchmaker of Nuremberg, Germany, is often considered the inventor of the watch. He was one of the first craftsmen to make small ornamental...
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  • Scottish entomologist John Walter Clark (born 1935), American physicist John Willis Clark (1833–1910), English academic and antiquarian John Clark (basketball)...
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  • Surrogates (category Films with screenplays by John Brancato and Michael Ferris)
    book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate...
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    Theodore Maiman (category 20th-century American inventors)
    Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman. Maiman was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family. Abraham "Abe" Maiman, an electrical engineer and inventor...
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    science and useful arts. The 2020 class included 22 inventors.John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Luis von Ahn...
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  • Texas Railroad Commission Kelly Willis, musician Cody Wilson, founder and director of Defense Distributed; inventor of The Liberator-3D printed gun Eddie...
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  • Confederate general John T. Williams (politician) (1864–1944), Wisconsin state assemblyman John Willis Williams, state legislator in Arkansas John Williams (Australian...
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  • PREDICTED Maschke of National Committee Expects Defeat of Willis in the Primaries. Predicts Defeat of Willis. Wickersham Extols Hoover". The New York Times. "TO...
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    real person; in a supporting role alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis in the time-travel thriller Looper; and as the writer Nick Flynn, alongside...
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    Drasch believed that it would be possible to power a vehicle. In 1870, E.P. Willis of New Haven, Connecticut made money from a "proprietary" perpetual motion...
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  • activist Gertrude Pocte Geddes Willis, owner of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Life Insurance Company and Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home Edna Lewis Hercules...
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    died in 2017. One biological child and one adopted child. Willis, John A. (1998). John Willis' Theatre World. Crown Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9781557833235...
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  • Varian (Ph.D.), co-inventor of Klystron, the foundation of radar Sigurd Varian (M.S.), co-inventor of Klystron, the foundation of John Robert Woodyard (Ph...
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  • the early years of cartoonist/inventor Rube Goldberg; Willi, a one-man show based on the speeches of mountaineer Willi Unsoeld, a member of the first...
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    Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show. Black is one of the inventors of the VJamm software used in the Coldcut live...
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  • Turing Award McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino (2009-09-01). Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-0-8225-7273-2...
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    Samuel Morland (category English inventors)
    30 December 1695), or Moreland, was an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments...
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