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Encyclopedia of scientists and inventors..the inventors in order according to their nickname..the letter 2_and

⏹ Westinghouse, George
George Westinghouse,

American engineer and inventor (1846-1914)
Westinghouse worked as an engineer in the US fleet after the end of compulsory service · He invented the automatic air brakes (air brakes), which are now used in transmissions. He has studies in transmission. Westinghouse established several electric train companies to manufacture his electrical and railway equipment. The most successful of these companies is known by his name: Company Westinghouse.

⏹ Wollaston, William Hyde
Wallaston, William Hyde

British inventor, physician, chemist and physicist
( 1828 - 1766 )
Wollaston studied at Charterhouse and Cambridge and practiced medicine for a while. He developed a method to make platinum more malleable and succeeded in producing a wire of platinum with a diameter of 1/30,000 inch.
This method generated enough profits for him that enabled him to leave the practice of medicine in order to devote himself to scientific research.
Wollaston was able to prove practically that the electricity arising from friction is of the same nature as the electricity in the form of current. In 1803 he discovered palladium, and in 1804 he discovered rhodium.
In the field of inventions, he invented a camera (camera) to produce images arising from reflection, and another tool to measure the drop in water temperature during evaporation.
He also invented the theodolite, (a device for measuring angles) Goniometer to measure angles in crystals. He has many other inventions in the optical sciences, including the Wollaston double-image prism lens.

⏹ Wilson, Archibald Wilson,

American tool maker (from the nineteenth century)
He invented a gas lighter (lighter) that works with gas and electricity, where the ignition is done by means of a delicate strip of platinum that glows with a current emanating from an electric inductive file. The first lighter produced by him of this kind appeared in the year 1860.

⏹ Wilkinson, John

British iron producer and inventor (1728-1808)
Wilkinson invented a machine for accurately drilling cylindrical iron. He also invented a method for making lead pipes · He built a barge of iron. He designed and cast the first iron bridge in England in 1779.

⏹ Wilcox, Sir William
Willcocks, Sir William

British engineer born in India
( 1852 - 1932 )
Wilcox designed the Aswan Dam in Egypt and supervised its construction until it was completed in 1902.
(See Baker, Benjamin), and he prepared a great plan to irrigate thirty-one million acres of land between the two rivers in Iraq in the year 1911, commissioned by the Ottoman Empire at the time, and with the demise of the Ottoman rule, the aforementioned plan disappeared. .