Top 100 Global Creator - P23. Ray Tomlinson - Creator of email
30-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Ray Tomlinson is credited as the inventor of email; in 1971, he developed the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts across the ARPANET, using the @ sign to link the user name with a destination server. By the mid-1970s, this was the form recognized as email.
Top 100 Global Creator - P22. Roger L. Easton, Ivan A. Getting, Bradford Parkinson – Creators of GPS
27-09-2020
(wcsa.world) It was initially developed for use by the United States military and became fully operational in 1995. Civilian use was allowed from the 1980s. Roger L. Easton of the Naval Research Laboratory, Ivan A. Getting of The Aerospace Corporation, and Bradford Parkinson of the Applied Physics Laboratory are credited with inventing it.
Top 100 Global Creator - P21. Thomas Knoll & John Knoll – Creator of photoshop software
26-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Photoshop was developed in 1987 by two brothers Thomas and John Knoll, who sold the distribution license to Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1988.
Top 100 Global Creator - P20. David Hanson – Creator of world's first robot citizen Sophia
25-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Hanson’s career has focused on creating humanlike robots. Hanson's most well-known creation is Sophia, the world's first ever robot citizen.
Top 100 Global Creator - P19. Chester Carlson – Inventor of electrophotography
24-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Chester Floyd Carlson invented world's first photocopy machine.
Top 100 Global Creator - P18. Robert H. Goddard – Create and build world's first liquid-fueled rocket
23-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945)[1] was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.
Top 100 Global Creator - P17. Bjarne Stroustrup – C++ programming language
22-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Stroustrup is best known for his work on C++. In 1979, he began developing C++ (initially called "C with Classes"). In his own words, he "invented C++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation [...] chose and formulated the design criteria for C++.
Top 100 Global Creator - P16. Joseph Aspdin - Inventor of Portland cement
21-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Aspdin called the product Portland cement because set mortar made from it resembled “the best Portland stone".
Top 100 Global Creator - P15. John Shepherd-Barron - Creator of automated teller machine or ATM
20-09-2020
(wcsa.world) He conceived the idea for a self-service machine dispensing cash whilst lying in the bath. He was considering the problem of bank opening hours, having turned up at a bank after closing time one day and found himself unable to withdraw money.
Top 100 Global Creator - P14. Momofuku Ando – Instant Noodle
19-09-2020
(wcsa.world) Momofuku Ando was the founder of the Japanese food product company called ‘Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd.’ He also invented the concept of instant noodles, cup noodles and instant ramen which became famous as the cheapest and most convenient food.
