Great Teachers Great Britain

Teachers Great Britain Lodislao BiroHungarian artist. In about 1943 he invented the ball-point pen or biro. John BowlesLondon hatter who designed the hard round hat known as the bowler in about 1850, it has become the symbol of British male respectability. Louis Braille Born at France. In 1824 he developed his own alphabet patterns known as Braille by which the blind could read by touch. Samuel Colt An American gunsmith. He designed a pistol, patented in 1836, with a revolving barrel that could fire six bullets, one after the other. Rudolf Diesel A German engineer who invented the diesel engine in 1897 and so began a transport revolution in cars, lorries and trains. Hans Wilhelm Geiger A German nuclear physicist. From 1906-1909 he designed a counter for detecting radio-activity. This was the beginning of modern geiger counters. Charles MackintoshManchester. Textile chemist who, in 1823, developed a rubber solution for coating fabrics which led to the production of waterproof raincoats for mackintoshes. Samuel Finley Breeze Morse American Portrait painter who invented the telegraphic dot-dash alphabet known as morse code. Louis Pasteur Frenchman who was both a chemist and a biologist. Pasteurisation is method of sterilising milk by heating it. Charles RollsCar salesman who with the engineer Henry Royce created the world-famous Rolls-Royce car .