Science

7 inventions

They used X-ray data from Rosalind Franklin without her knowledge or consent. The double helix model...

Leeuwenhoek ground lenses that magnified 270x, revealing bacteria, sperm, and blood cells. He never ...

Galileo did not invent the telescope but was first to point it at the sky. He discovered Jupiters mo...

Jansky detected radio waves from the Milky Way while studying static for Bell Labs. Grote Reber buil...

Von Ardenne built the first scanning electron microscope. Modern SEMs can magnify up to 10 million t...

Maiman built the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in May 1960 using a synthetic r...

Fahrenheit, an instrument maker born in Danzig and working in Amsterdam, made the first reliable mer...