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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts . His accomplishment as a scientist, publisher and statesman are particularly remarkable when considered in the context of colonial North America, which lacked the cultural and commercial institution to nourish original ideas. He dedicated himself to the improvement of every day life for the widest number of people and, in doing so, made indelible mark on the emerging nation. Benjamin Franklin's invention include bifocal glasses and the iron furnace stove, a small contraption with a sliding door which burns wood on a grate, thus allowing people to cook food and heat their homes at the same time. Mid-eighteenth century scientist and inventors considered electricity to be Franklin's most remarkable area of investigation and discovery. In his famous Experiment using a key and a kite during a thunderstorm, Franklin (working with his son) tested his hypothesis that lightning bo

  ARYABHATTA ARYABHATTA Aryabhatta (476-550 A.D.) was born in Patliputra in Magadha, modern Patna in Bihar. Many are of the view that  was born in the south India especially Kerala and lived in Magadha at the time of the Gupta rulers; time which is known as the golden age of India. There is no evidence that he was born outside Patliputra and traveled to Magadha, the center of education and learning of his studies where he even set up a coaching center. Whatever his origin, it cannot be argued that he lived in Patliputra where he he wrote his famous treatise the Aryabhatta-siddhanta but more famously the Aryabhatiya, the only work to have survived, It contains Mathematical and astronomical theories that have been revealed to be quite accurate in modern mathematics. For instance, he wrote that if 3 is added to 100 and then multiply 8 then added to 62,000 then divided by 20,000 the answer will be equal to the circumference of a circle of diameter twenty thousand. This calculates to 3.1416

  STEPHEN HAWKING STEPHEN HAWKING Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England, which is exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. From a very early age, Hawking showed the qualities of a scientist, he was always inquisitive. He liked to build models to see how things worked. Hawking went to the High school for Girls (yes, the school was supposed to be for girls) at St. Albans at the age of 8. Later, he switched to St. Albans school by passing the eleven-plus examination. Hawking was a keen child, but he was not the brightest in his competitive A stream class. Some of his  classmates did not believe he could do well, though they give him the nickname of Einstein. Hawking's father who was a doctor, wanted him to study medicine at Oxford However, he was more interested in mathematics. It turned out that he studied Physics, as the University collage did not provide degree studies in mathematics. Hawking was awarded a first class honours degree in

  ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL SHORT STORY GRAHAM BELL Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. In the United States, he began teaching deaf-mutes, publicising the system called visible speech. The system, which was develop by his father, the Scottish educator Alexander Graham Bell, shows how the lips, tongue, and throat are used in articulation of sound. In 1872, Bell founded a school for dear-mutes in Boston, Massachusetts. The school subsequently became part of the Boston University, where Bell was appointed professor of vocal physiology. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1882. Since the age of 18, Bell had been working on the idea of transmitting speech. In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistants Thomas Watson finally proved successful on Mar

ISAAC NEWTON SIR ISAAC NEWTON Isaac Newton was born on 4 January 1643 at Woolsthorpe-by-Closeterworth, a hamlet in the country of Lincolnshire. At the time of Newton's birth, England had not adopted the latest papal calendar and therefore his date of birth was recorded as Christmas Day, 25 December 1642. Newton was born three months after the death of his father. Born peramaturely, he was small child; his mother Hannah Ayscough reportedly said that he could have fit inside a quart mug. When Newton was three, his mother remarried and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabus Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandfather, Margery Ayscough. The young Isaac disliked his stepfather and held some enmity towards his mother for marrying him, as revealed by this entry in a list of sins commited up to the age of 19; "Threatening my father and mother Smith to burn them and the house over them. In June 1661, he was admitted to Trinity Collage, Cambridge as