Answer:
Fox Talbot - Photographs
Isaac Singer - Sewing Machine
Etienne Lenoir - Gasoline Engine
Alfred Nobel - Dynamite
Wilhelm - X-rays
Explanation:
- Fox Talbot was a British photographer, inventor, archaeologist, botanist, philosopher, philologist, mathematician and politician. He was a member of the English Parliament.
- Creator of the calotype process (which had preceded his photogenic drawings), which he patented in 1842, was one of the pioneers of photography.
- Isaac Singer was an inventor, an actor, and an entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of Singer Sewing Machine Company.
- Etienne Lenoir was a Belgian engineer, naturalized French, inventor of the first internal combustion engine.
- Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and manufacturer of weapons, famous mainly for the invention of dynamite and for creating the awards that bear his name.
- The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, while experimenting with the Hittorff-Crookes tubes and the Ruhmkorff coil to investigate the violet fluorescence produced by the cathode rays. After covering the tube with black cardboard to eliminate visible light, he observed a faint yellow-green glow from a screen with a layer of platinum-barium cyanide, which disappeared when the tube was turned off.
