John Kay (born Joachim Fritz Krauledat, 12 April 1944, Tilsit, East Prussia,

Germany, now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia)[1] is a German-CanadianAmerican rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist known as the frontman of
Steppenwolf.
Musical career
Kay in a performance in South Carolina on January 1, 1971
Kay joined a blues rock and folk music group known as The Sparrows in 1965,
which had moderate success in Canada before moving to California in the
USA, augmenting its line-up and changing its name to Steppenwolf in 1967.
With music that pioneered hard rock and heavy metal, Kay's Steppenwolf
had international success with songs such as "Born to Be Wild",
James Hargreaves (c. 1720 22 April 1778)[2] was a weaver, carpenter
and inventor in Lancashire, England. He was one of three inventors
responsible for mechanising spinning. Hargreaves is credited with inventing
the spinning jenny in 1764, Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in
1769, and Samuel Crompton combined the two creating the spinning mule a
little later.
Life and work
James Hargreaves was born at Knuzden Brook near Stanhill, Oswaldtwistle in
Lancashire, he lived in Blackburn, then a town with a population of about
5,000, known for the production of "Blackburn greys," cloths of linen Warp
and cotton weft. They were usually sent to London to be printed. The
demand for cotton yarn outstripped supply, and the one-thread spinning
wheel could not keep up.
Samuel Crompton (3 December 1753 26 June 1827) was an English
inventor and pioneer of the spinning industry. Building on the work of James

Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright he invented the spinning mule, a machine

that revolutionised the industry worldwide.
Spinning mule:About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a
mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture
of muslin.[3] It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i' th' Woodwheel,
[4] from the name of the house in which he and his family lived.
James Watt, FRS, FRSE (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) 25 August
1819)[1] was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose
improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the
changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain
and the rest of the world.
While working as an instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt
became interested in the technology of steam engines. He realised that
contemporary engine designs wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly
cooling and re-heating the cylinder. Watt introduced a design enhancement,
the separate condenser, which avoided this waste of energy and radically
improved the power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of steam engines.
Eventually he adapted his engine to produce rotary motion, greatly
broadening its use beyond pumping water.
Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 25 August 1867) was an
English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and
electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic
induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most
influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field
around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the
basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. Faraday also
established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an

underlying relationship between the two phenomena.[1][2] He similarly

discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and
the laws of electrolysis. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices
formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was largely due to
his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology.
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 29 May 1829) was a
Cornish chemist and inventor.He is best remembered today for his
discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as
contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and
iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical
Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the
theory of chemistry." He was a 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society
(PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), and Fellow of the
Geological Society (FGS).
Popular public figure
Davy revelled in his public status, as his lectures gathered many spectators.
He became well known in 1799 due to his experiments with the physiological
action of some gases, including laughing gas (nitrous oxide), with
enthusiastic experimental subjects including his poet friends Robert Southey
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 April 2, 1872) was an
American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a
portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a
single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a codeveloper of the Morse code, and helped to develop the commercial use of
telegraphy
Painting

Morse expressed some of his Calvinist beliefs in his painting, Landing of the
Pilgrims, through the depiction of simple clothing as well as the people's
austere facial features. His image captured the psychology of the Federalists;
Calvinists from England brought to North America ideas of religion and
government, thus linking the two countries. This work attracted the attention
of the notable artist Washington Allston. Allston wanted Morse to accompany
him to England to meet the artist Benjamin West. Allston arranged with
Morse's father a three-year stay for painting study in England. The two
men set sail aboard the Lybia on July 15,
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 August 2, 1922)[4] was an
eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is
credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on
elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly
influencing Bell's life's work.[7] His research on hearing and speech further
led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in
Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.[N 4] Bell
considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a
scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study
First invention
As a child, young Bell displayed a natural curiosity about his world, resulting
in gathering botanical specimens as well as experimenting even at an early
age. His best friend was Ben Herdman, a neighbor whose family operated a
flour mill, the scene of many forays. Young Aleck asked what needed to be
done at the mill.
Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (Italian: [ulmo markoni];
25 April 1874 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer,

known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission[1] and for
his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often
credited as the inventor of radio,[2] and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in
Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the
development of wireless telegraphy.
Personal life
American electrical engineer Alfred Norton Goldsmith and Marconi on 26 June
1922.
Marconi had a brother, Alfonso, and a stepbrother, Luigi.
On 16 March 1905, Marconi married the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien (18821976),
a daughter of Edward O'Brien, 14th Baron Inchiquin, having met her in Poole
in 1904.[42] They had three daughters, Degna (19081998), Gioia (1916
1996), and Lucia (born and died 1906), and a son, Giulio, 2nd Marchese
Marconi (19101971).

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 February 24, 1815) was a colonial
American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a
commercially successful steamboat called Clermont. That steamboat went
from New York City to Albany with passengers which is a 300-mile distance in
62 hours. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design
the "Nautilus", which was the first practical submarine in history.[1] He is
also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes
for use by the British Royal Navy.[2]
Education and work
Fulton took several letters of introduction to Americans abroad from the
individuals he had met in Philadelphia. He had already corresponded with
Benjamin West, and West took Fulton into his home, where Fulton lived for

several years. Fulton gained many commissions painting portraits and

landscapes, which allowed him to support himself, but he continually
experimented with mechanical inventions.