Scientists and Inventors

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  • Samuel Colt, Colt Firearms
  • Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) physician and botonist. Initiated at St. David’s Lodge No. 36, Edinburgh in 1754
  • Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
  • Sir Sanford Fleming (1827-1915), creator of first Canadian stamp and standard time
  • John Fitch - Inventor of the Steamboat
  • Sir Alexander Fleming - Invented Penicillin
  • Richard J. Gatling- Invented the Gatling Gun
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin - Inventor of the “Guillotin”
  • Richard M. Hoe- Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing
  • Edward Jenner (1749-1823), physician, discoverer of smallpox vaccine
  • Dr. William and Charles Mayo - Founded the Mayo Clinic
  • William James Mayo (1861-1939), surgeon
  • Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939), surgeon
  • Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
  • Franz Anton Mesmer, practiced Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism
  • Albert Abraham Michelson - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
  • Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier, inventors of the hot air balloon
  • Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), mechanical engineer and inventor; printed first penny postage stamp in 1840
  • David Sarnoff, father of T.V. (RCA)
  • James F. Smathers, inventor of the electric typewriter, Gate City Lodge No 522, Kansas City.
  • James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
  • Andrew T. Still - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
  • James Watt (1736-1819) inventor of the steam engine. Initiated 1763.
  • Percy Wootton MD - President American Medical Association (1997- )