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Antoon van Dyck was born in Antwerp, Belgium back in 1599 to Frans and Maria. By the time he was 15 he was already an accomplished painter. At 16 years old, he opened his own workshop selling his paintings. In 1618, he was admitted to the Guild of Saint Luke as a free master. Within a few short y...
09/30/2018
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Bram van der Stok was born in the Dutch East Indies back in 1915. He attended school at Lyceum Alpinum in Switzerland before studying medicine at Leiden University, then he continued his medical studies at Utrecht University. He joined the Netherland’s Air Force just prior to the outbreak of WWII...
09/29/2018
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John Butler was born in Middletown, Ohio back in 1875. He attended Westminster prep school at Dobbs Ferry, New York then off to Yale University graduating in 1897 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He returned to Middletown where he worked at his father’s paper mill. When his father died the fa...
09/28/2018
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James Tubbs was born in London, England to William (sorry I could not find his mother’s name). he worked with his father until around 1860, sorry again as I could not find out what he actually did while working there. However, that is not the basis for this blog.In 1860, he worked with William ...
09/27/2018
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Hezekiah Usher was born in Bethnal Green, London, England back in 1615. I could not find anything else on his life until the year 1642. Then in 1645 he moved to Boston in the Massachusetts bay Colony. He lived on State Street near the market-place. He opened up a business and by 1652, he was a we...
09/26/2018
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William Ungar was born in Krasne, Poland back in 1913 to a Jewish family. He worked as a teacher in a technical high school prior to WWII. During the war, he fought for the Polish Army where he was wounded. When he returned home, Poland was overrun by the German Army, he was able to remain hidden...
09/25/2018
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James Alexander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania back in 1856. I could not find anything about him until 1879. He attended Harvard college where he was on the baseball team. After graduating he was picked up by the Boston Red Caps as an emergency pitcher.He pitched against the Providence Gr...
09/24/2018
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Stepan Prokopovych was born in Shpotvka, Russian Empire back in 1878. He graduated from St. Petersburg Institute of Engineers Ways of Communication in 1901. He stayed at that institution for two years after graduation as an instructor. In 1906, he was appointed to the Chair of Strength of Materia...
09/23/2018
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Gustave Trouve was born in La Haye Descartes, France back in 1839. In 1850, you could find him studying to be a locksmith however due to poor health he moved to Paris where he found work as a clockmaker. While there he invented a carbon-zinc pocket-sized battery to power his automata (a device ma...
09/22/2018
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Are you ready for this one? Regardless let’s get to it.Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born in Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire back in 1857. His mother died when he was 13. He was not admitted to elementary schools because he had a hearing problem, so he was self-taught.Because of his hearing probl...
09/21/2018
