What is Johan Edvard Lundstrom's greatest invention?
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LUNDSTROM, J.E.\nSafety matches were invented by Johan Edvard Lundstrom of Sweden in 1855. Lundstrom's new match was the first simple and safe way to make a fire. His new safety match could only be lit by striking the match against the specially-prepared surface that came attached to the box. Lundstrom put red phosphorus on the rough striking paper (on the outside the match box); the other fire-starting chemicals were on the match's head. Previous matches gave long-time users an ailment called "phossy jaw;" this was a painful and deadly disease caused by the older matchs' yellow phosphorus that ate into the users' jaws.
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There are new inventions / discoveries practically every day.  The best catalog of them I've seen used to be the McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.  But the IEEE and ACM both have great tech newsletters talking about new discoveries and inventions.\n\nIf you're tlaking about non-tech stuff, you only need look as far as the discovery of new islands just off Togo... a couple of weeks ago, a yachter discovered "pumice rafts" drifting in the ocean from an underwater volcano, and within a week an island had formed.\n\nFor a start, check out the Science News section of Yahoo.
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If you have the encarta encyclopedia program on your computer they have a list of inventions.  Just type in notable Inventions and Discoveries and it will bring up a table with all the info you need.
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Dr. James Naismith invented it.\n\nGeorge Mikan was the star who helped popularize it
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile.\n\nHe was a brilliant man. When he was thirteen he was already making locomotives, tractors, even miniature boats with clockwork mechanisms. Joseph-Armand had a dream - to conquer the obstacle of snow in winter.
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I would say Watson and Crick.  They discovered DNA, leading the biological world into a whole new era that makes so much possible from treating deadly diseases to cloning.
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During the 1950s, an Englishman by the name of Christopher Cockerell developed and patented the first hovercraft. For his contribution to the British people and the Queen, he was knighted and named "Sir" Christopher Cockerell. Soon after, British Hovercraft Corporation developed the first commercial hovercraft for passenger transport across the English Channel. With the ability to carry up to 400 passengers and 50 automobiles, these passenger hovercraft have operated since 1968 and have carried more than 30 million passengers and 5 million automobiles.\n\nSafety matches were invented by Johan Edvard Lundstrom of Sweden in 1855. Lundstrom's new match was the first simple and safe way to make a fire. His new safety match could only be lit by striking the match against the specially-prepared surface that came attached to the box. Lundstrom put red phosphorus on the rough striking paper (on the outside the match box); the other fire-starting chemicals were on the match's head. Previous matches gave long-time users an ailment called "phossy jaw;" this was a painful and deadly disease caused by the older matchs' yellow phosphorus that ate into the users' jaws.
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Although all discoveries in physics tend to be built up on previous discoveries, making all of them important, I would probably say the theory of relativity is the greatest.  Relativity in conjunction with Hamilton's principle allows us to describe a wide range of phenomenon with some pretty basic ideas.  Plus its really cool.
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the origin of super glue\nthe saeger estate\nthe inventor of doorknobs
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J.J. Thompson was named John Joseph Thompson.  He did experiments exploring the properties of the electron and his investigation  led to the invention of the cathode ray tube, which was later instrumental in launching the electronics revolution which still continues.  He received the Nobel prize in 1906 for this work.
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The vacuum flask was invented by the Scot Sir James Dewar, while working as a scientist at Oxford University in 1892.\n\nThe first barometer was devised by Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo Galilei, in 1643.\n\nThe best known safety lamps are the Davy lamp, invented by Sir Humphry Davy and the Geordie lamp, invented by George Stephenson. Both of those were invented in 1815 and have been superseded by the Gray, Muesler, Marsant, and other lamps; most later lamps are constructed on the principle discovered by Davy, that a flame enveloped in wire gauze of a certain fineness does not ignite firedamp.
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You can go here :\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgum.htm
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Dr. Jeorge valvus in the year 1872, when they had to construct an irrigation system for a sugar can plantation and in the process this man invented the valve.\n\ngood luck.
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He invented a "photophone", the predecessor to our fiber optics.  It was a way to transmit information, in the form of sound, over light. In addition, he invented a vacuum jacket that would eventually become the iron lung used in polio cases in the 50s.  He also pioneered into the area of desalinization, "alternative energies" and recycling.  He also invented the concept of metal detectors, using an inductive pickup coil.
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He invented:\nlightening rod\nbifocals\nFranklin stove\nsimple odometer\ncatheter\nconcept of daylight savings time
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I consider the great invention for mankind is the writing and more specifically the alphabet!\nThe inventor of the alphabet was living on the island Crete, south of Athens, north of Egypt, some 4,000 years ago!
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The traffic light\nGas masks (both by Garrett Morgan)\n\nLong haul refrigeration systems on trucks.\n\nThe ironing board.\n\nOpen heart surgery.\n\nStreet sweeper trucks.\n\nThe electronic resistor (for which help make electronics possible)\n\nThe filament in a lightbulb (for which was Edison's toughest feat)\n\nThe WC (restroom) on trains.\n\nModern music.\n\nThe super soaker.\n\nThe jenny coupler (it links railroad cars, a dangerous task for which is how it's black inventor Andrew Beard, lost his leg.)\n\nCarver invented peanut butter, adhesives, bleach, chili sauce, ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, talcum powder and more.\n\nMatzeliger invented an automatic method for lasting shoes, which made the mass production of affordable shoes possible.\n\n\nDr. Charles Richard Drew invented the possibility of blood banks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSo enjoy your affordable shoes, PB, music, anything electronic that you have, milk when you don't live near a dairy farm, your flat shirts, clean streets, incandescent lights, vacuum tubes... but don't say black people haven't done anything to make life more livable for you.