موسوعة العلمـاء و المخترعين .. المخترعون بالترتيب حسب اسم الشهرة .. الحرف ٤_ف

Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors.. Inventors in order according to their nickname.. The letter 4_F

⏹ Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon
Foucault, Jean-Bernard Léon

French physicist (1819 - 1868)
Studied medicine and physics · Invented an accurate device for examining lenses. He has significant achievements in light and optics.

Verberin, Sir William
Fairbrain, Sir William

British mechanical engineer and inventor
(years 1789 - 1874)
It is reported that he was the first to use iron in building ships. It affected me as a result. He was a Fellow of the British Royal Society and holds the title of Baronet (below the degree of Baron and above the degree of Knight).

⏹ Verstel, Baron Heinrich von
Ferstel, Baron Heinrich von

Austrian architect (1828 - 1883)
His social status was the cause of his emergence as an architect. In fact, his works are less famous than his name, despite their beauty.

⏹ Philo

World of Byzantium (second century BC)
A natural philosopher who wrote in military engineering, and remnants of his works still exist to this day. He described the invention of the scientist Ctecibius (mid-third century BC) as a “launcher, a catapult operated by compressed air.”
Philo noticed that the ignition of a candle within a semi-spherical body placed on water causes the water to rise in the semi-spherical body as a result of the shrinking of the volume of air inside it (according to Philo's conclusion).

⏹ Vermoyden, Cornelius
Vermuyden, Cornilius

Dutch civil engineer and inventor (1665)
Vermuiden was well known in his time as an architect of large agricultural and civil projects. He had extensive experience in dewatering (pumping it out), so he was summoned to Britain and drained the low-lying swamps that extended north of Cambridge.

⏹ Vernier, Vernier, Pierre

French inventor and technician (1580-1637)
Vernier spent most of his days serving the kings of Spain · Vernier invented the fractional scale (Vernier) to measure parts and parts of gradations.
Vernier thus opened the era of accurate measurements (and here comes the adage “that the architect measures in centimetres, the engineer measures in microns, and the world measures in angstroms).
The Portuguese scientist, Pedro Nune, made improvements to the vernier in order to increase the process and its accuracy.

⏹ Fisky, Jessep Maria (Joseph Marie).
Fieschi, Guiseppe Maria (Joseph Marie)
French inventor and conspirator from Corsica
( 1790 - 1836 )
Fisky was interested in inventing firearms, especially wide-ranging weapons, so he invented a bomb (an infernal machine) that he used in the assassination of “Louis Philippe, and dozens of people were killed with him.”
It should be noted that the bomb as a weapon was known since the fifteenth century, and it was used in the year 1495 in the siege of Rhodes.

⏹ Vivani, Vicenzo Vivani

Italian civil engineer (1622 - 1703)
Vivani emerged as an executor of the plans drawn up by the great engineer and inventor Leonardo da Vinci to control the Arno River, after developing those plans for about eighty-four years.

⏹ Vick, Adolf Eugen Fick, Adolf Eugen

German physiologist
( 1829 - 1901 )
Vic is best known for his ingenious attempts at making prostheses for the human body. His most prominent achievement was the invention of the adhesion lens (placed directly on the eye), which was developed so that it covered the surface of the cornea from the eye, and only Czech scientists had a long hand in that, as he sold the innovation to a Swiss company.