Innovation Inquirer
March 13 1880-May 6 1950 Volume:MMXVI
Lancelot Eldin De Mole
Lance invented the tank and tried to sell the idea to the British in 1912, 1914, and 1916.He was born in Adelaide, Australia. He went to Melbourne church of England Grammar School and completed his education at Berwick Grammar
School. He worked as a draftsman, a miner, and an engineer. Some of his inventions were the automatic telephone and the tank. He survived by his wife, Harriet Josephine Walter, his siblings , Florence Louise de Mole , Winfred Emily de Mole, Clive Moulden de Mole, Gladys Rose de Mole, and William Fredrick de Mole. |
John Logie Baird
Logie was born in Helensburgh, United Kingdom. Logie was inspired by his surroundings, and decided to go to the Royal College of Science and Technology to learn more about them. Logie learned a lot from his college and he had many occupations after that. Logie was an inventor, an engineer, and a businessperson. Since he loved his job as an inventor the most, he decided to attempt to make artificial diamonds and tropical fruit jam. He did not succeed at this, but he didn't give up either. He decided to try something different, so since he had heard a lot about the television that did not quite reach the inventor's expectations, he decided to make a television that did. He tried and tried and finally, he succeeded. He had
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made the first working television. Even though some people didn't like it, like Philo Farnsworth who said, "There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet." Sadly after sixteen years of selling the television at retail stores, he passed away. Even though he died, he lived by the people he loved. His wife Margaret Albu, his children Malcom Baird and Diana Baird, and his siblings Annie Baird, Jean Baird, and James Baird.
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Ole Kirk Christiansen
Christiansen was born in Filskov, Denmark. Christiansen didn't have an education growing up, but he had always loved toys and loved to improve things. So one day he lost his job as a carpenter during the depression. He saw his son was sad and he had some wood leftover that he had never used. He thought about what he had liked growing up and he thought to himself, Toys! He decided to make a wooden duck for his son to play with so he wouldn't be so sad. He saw that his son really liked the toy and started making toys as a living and that is when his life changed. He was now a happy person with all of these Lego bricks surrounding him, but one day something really terrible happened. Christiansen had a heart attack and by the time anyone had noticed he was already dead. Even though he died he was a very happy person he had his son Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and his wife and that was all he needed. As a wise man once said, "Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the Industrial Age- our dominant way of knowing, doing, and creating value."
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