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Of currently dead inventors, my favorite is ...
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Thomas Jefferson! (Score:3, Insightful)
fine, I'll give some text in order to get past the filter... anyways, yeah, Jefferson had a bunch of cool inventions from the hideaway bed to the double-faced clock to all sorts of other random stuff
Un-dead? (Score:4, Insightful)
Obviously: Zuse (Score:4, Insightful)
Konrad Zuse
Inventor of the Computer
Oh, and while we're at it... (Score:5, Insightful)
Dennis Ritchie [wikipedia.org] also deserves some mention. He didn't die too long ago, so it's a little hard to think of him in these terms.
Louis Pastuer (Score:5, Insightful)
Inventor of germ theory, vaccines to prevent disease.
Re:Thomas Jefferson! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Da Vinci was an artist (Score:5, Insightful)
Tesla is awesome, but Franklin is the man! (Score:5, Insightful)
He's basically the patron saint of the modern open source and collaboration movement. He refused to patent, writing in his autobiography, "... as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
Franklin is THE Slashdot hero! His inventions spanned many different areas and he was a politician, not to mention one with great ideas and his goal truly was the betterment of mankind. He was willing to prove it.