1. Harley Venable

2. The Greeks invented a system of writing that ran from left to right.

3. Professor Alessandro Volta, whose voltaic cells stacked in a Voltaic pile and invented the first battery.

4. Richard Trevithick invents a patent for the steam locomotive in 1802.

5. William Talbot invented it from the inspiration of his inability to draw. He invented the negative/positive process in 1826.

6. Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain in 1843, which comprised a pen attached to a pendulum kept in motion by electromagnetic impulses, is remarkably similar in principle to the modern machine.

7. Alfred Nobel invented the dynamite in 1867. A small time before it was finished, his younger brother died in an attempt to stabilize the dynamite.

8. Joseph Gidden, a 60-year-old New Hampshire rancher was the first to invent a method for mass manufacturing of barbed wire and he made a fortune as miles of his wire criss-crossed American farms.

9. Felix Hoffman perfected the remedy on his arthritic father, marketing it under the trade name Aspirin.

10. Scotsman John Logie Baird first demonstrated TV to the public in 1925.

11. Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.

12. Toastmaster popped into general stores, but it took another 18 years for the wedding present favorite to land in the UK, where Morphy-Richards introduced the first model in 1948.