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    Quote Originally Posted by SvenDC View Post
    Soviet soldiers are the most overrated in popular culture.

    In how many games you play as Comrade Yuri killing Nazis?A lot.
    Best argument ever!

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    James Clerk Maxwell

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    Angelo Moriondo, the first one to patent an expresso machine apparently. Thanks to him, billions of workers are not sleeping at their workplace. Had he never existed, the economy would probably be half the size it is today.

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    Gauss and Euler. Mathematicians as whole are always underrated while the role of Physicist in shaping the world is always overstated.

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    Nikola Tesla. Without him there would be no electricty, so we'd all be sitting around candles and reading novels.
    Myth. Electricity existed before Tesla was even born.

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    I'd say Ludwig Wittgenstein for the simple fact most people I have talked to have heard Nietzsche and Aristotle etc.. but not him; he is supposed to be the most important philosopher of the 20th century according to a significant amount of experts.

    I'll probably think of some more later. BTW, I'm tempted to say the Italian Olinto De Pretto, as well, simply because Einstein stole and plagiarized the formula E=mc^2 from him and that is not fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Benedicta View Post
    Nikola Tesla. Without him there would be no electricty, so we'd all be sitting around candles and reading novels.
    Let's not forget George Westinghouse. He used the Tesla electrical system with this own bulbs. Sadly the electrical company is called Edison, the very one who opposed to AC current systems. The irony.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Benedicta View Post
    Nikola Tesla. Without him there would be no electricty, so we'd all be sitting around candles and reading novels.

    Maybe that's what we (Society) lack on this Day's.

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    Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC, generally known simply as Gago Coutinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaɾluʒ ˈvjeɣɐʒ ˈɣaɣu kowˈtĩɲu]; 17 February 1869 – 18 February 1959) was a Portuguese aviation pioneer who, together with Sacadura Cabral (1881–1924), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, from March to June 1922 (some sources wrongly claim 1919), from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro.[1]

    The Fairey IIIB seaplane used by Coutinho and Cabral for their transatlantic flight did not have enough fuel capacity to make the entire trip unaided so various stops were made along the way and the aviators were shadowed by a support ship, República. On the journey down the Brazilian coast a heavy rain storm caused the aircraft’s engine to fail and the aviators were forced to ditch in the ocean. Realizing that something was wrong, the República sent out a distress signal asking other ships in the area to look out for the seaplane. After some time in the water, the aviators were found by a British freighter. The Paris City of the Reardon Smith Line, under Captain A.E. Tamlyn, en route from Cardiff to Rio, rescued Coutinho and Cabral; they completed their journey with a new aircraft. A commemorative painting of the rescue[2] was produced by the Portuguese comic artist, José Stuart Carvalhais (‘Stuart’).

    Gago Coutinho invented a type of sextant incorporating two spirit levels to provide an artificial horizon.[3] This adaptation of the traditional marine sextant allowed navigation without visual reference to the real horizon. He also invented an optical flight instrument, to be mounted on the plane's cockpit floor, which measures leeway in flight whenever ground remains visible.



    Gago Coutinho (right) and Sacadura Cabral (left) on board of the Lusitânia.
    Born 17 February 1869
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    Henri Poincare. Very underrated scientist of 20th century.

    Enstein ripped off him badly without even aknowleding his work. Poincare was true inventor of relativity and E=mc2 formula.

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