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    John Wall (26 June 1932 – 27 January 2018) was an English design engineer, amateur astronomer, amateur telescope maker and member of the British Astronomical...
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  • electroacoustic composer and improviser John Wall (inventor) (1932–2018), amateur telescope maker, inventor of Crayford focuser John Wall (judge) (1930–2008), British...
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    John Crawshaw Taylor OBE FREng (born 25 November 1936) is an English inventor, entrepreneur, horologist and philanthropist best known for his extensive...
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  • The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is a 2019 American documentary film, directed and produced by Alex Gibney. The film revolves around Elizabeth...
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  • innovation that they invented or designed. Sylvester H. Roper (1823–1896), inventor of the Roper steam velocipede, died of a heart attack or subsequent crash...
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    1919 – 27 January 2016) was a German inventor. He is best known for inventing an expanding plastic version of the wall plug. Born in Tumlingen, Artur Fischer...
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  • John Rawlings may refer to: John Rawlings (photographer), American fashion photographer John Joseph Rawlings, British engineer and inventor of the wall...
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    John Carreyrou (/ˌkæriˈruː/) is a French-American investigative reporter at The New York Times. Carreyrou worked for The Wall Street Journal for 20 years...
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    Ottmar Mergenthaler (category 19th-century American inventors)
    Ottmar Mergenthaler (11 May 1854 – 28 October 1899) was a German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine, the first device that could easily and...
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    - mechanical part. Crayford focuser - John Wall original drawings. Crayford focusers. Mr. John Wall, inventor of the Crayford focuser. Crayford focuser...
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    This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries...
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  • played ex-con Ernie Dodds in Minder in 1982, with George Cole. Wall played one of the inventors in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in 1977 he was...
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    John Ernst Worrell Keely (September 3, 1837 – November 18, 1898) was an American fraudster and self-proclaimed inventor from Philadelphia who claimed...
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    John Bird (1709– 31 March 1776) was a British mathematical instrument maker who was notable for inventing the sextant.[citation needed] He came to London...
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    National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who...
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  • professor John Ioannidis, and later professor of clinical biochemistry Eleftherios Diamandis, along with investigative journalist John Carreyrou of The Wall Street...
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    patent for a plastic wall plug; around the same time, German inventor Artur Fischer created the plastic Fischer wall plug. The Fischer wall plug, due to its...
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  • John Henry Holmes (1857 – 1935) was an English electrical engineer, inventor, Quaker and pioneer of electric lighting who invented the quick break light...
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    Elizabeth Holmes (category 21st-century American inventors)
    2018. John Carreyrou's first bombshell article in the Wall Street Journal about problems at the blood-testing startup Theranos Carreyrou, John (October...
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  • politician (died 2005) Tim Parnell, racing driver (died 2017) 26 June – John Wall, inventor (died 2018) 27 June Alan Warren, Anglican priest and author (died...
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  • John Joseph Rawlings (1 June 1860 – 4 August 1942) was a British mechanical engineer and inventor of the wall plug, also known from his name as the rawlplug...
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    November 2012. Moss, Rebecca (24 July 2012). "John McAfee: Anti-virus king turned relational yoga inventor talks latest endeavor (or prank?)". Westword...
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    The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. Burials there...
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  • non-reinforced concrete gravel-wall method promoted by Park was used in Seguin for 100 or more structures, including cisterns, walls, barns, etc., of which about...
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    Valerian Abakovsky (category Burials at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis)
    remembered as the inventor of the Aerowagon. He was born in Riga on October 5, 1895, in to a Russian family. Although a talented inventor, he worked as a...
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  • Jan 31, 2016. Carreyrou, John (Oct 16, 2015). "Hot Startup Theranos Has Struggled With Its Blood-Test Technology". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved...
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    pre-drilled plywood walls fitted with T-nuts, as developed in 1986 by the Brussels-based firm Alpi'In. Pierre d'Haenens is the inventor of this system, which...
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    Sir John Robison KH FRSE FRSSA (11 June 1778 – 7 March 1843) was a Scottish inventor and writer on scientific subjects. He was the son of the physicist...
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  • Carreyrou, John (May 18, 2018). "Theranos Inc.'s Partners in Blood". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 8, 2019. Carreyrou, John (March 14, 2018)...
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    for me': John Muir's Years as an Inventor". Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 99, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 16–27. Ehrlich, Gretel (2000). John Muir: Nature's...
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