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Chapter 8

Highlighting Your Findings

Factoids
Amp – André Marie Ampère: French mathematician and physicist.

Demonstrated for the first time that a magnetic field is created when two

parallel wires are charged with electricity.
Braille – Louis Braille: Born in France, devised system of raised type when

he was a teacher of the blind. At 20, he published his first book in Braille.

He died aged 43.
Diesel engine – Rudolf Diesel. This French-born German engineer is cred-

ited with inventing the diesel engine, which he described in a treatise in
1886.
Galvanize – Luigi Galvani: Italian philosopher and physicist who, accord-

ing to the legend, inadvertently electrocuted a dead frog and saw its mus-
cles twitch. Galvanize originally meant to cause something to jolt into
action, as if shocked by electricity.
Jacuzzi – The seven Jacuzzi brothers founded Jacuzzi in 1915. Motivated

by a family member’s pain from arthritis, they invented a hydrotherapy
pump for the bath. The pump was then manufactured, and sold to hospitals
and schools.
Morse code – Samuel Morse: American artist, developed code for use on

the new electric telegraph in 1838.
Petri dish – Julius Richard Petri: German bacteriologist, who in 1878

invented a transparent dish used for the culture of microorganisms – the
Petri dish.
Pilates – Joseph Pilates: German-born physical fitness specialist. In around

1920, he developed a system of exercises using a special apparatus after
studying both Eastern and Western forms of exercise.

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