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