Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus ( April 9, 1903 – August 22, 1967 ) was an American biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill.

Wang co-invented the pulse transfer controlling device with Way-Dong Woo, a schoolmate from China who fell ill before their patent was issued.

The best of the lot, the SIGABA — which was destined to become the US's highest-security cipher machine in World War II — was co-invented by Frank Rowlett.

The Rockwell hardness tester, a differential-depth machine, was co-invented by Connecticut natives Hugh M. Rockwell ( 1890 – 1957 ) and Stanley P. Rockwell ( 1886 – 1940 ).

The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-invented by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.

It was co-invented by Donald Kilgrow, a retired Utah Highway Patrol trooper, along with a design engineer.

Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS FRS ( 23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946 ) was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research.

Puskás was working on his idea for a telegraph exchange when Alexander Graham Bell co-invented the telephone.

Gilbert Sandford Vernam ( 3 April 1890 – 7 February 1960 ) was an AT & T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented an additive polyalphabetic stream cipher and later co-invented an automated one-time pad cipher.

The first gas laser, the Helium – neon laser ( HeNe ), was co-invented by Iranian physicist Ali Javan and American physicist William R. Bennett, Jr. in 1960.

" Jeremy " Swan ( 1 June 1922 – 7 February 2005 ) was an Irish cardiologist, originally from Sligo, who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter ( widely used in intensive care units ) with William Ganz at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1970.

Chaff in the United States was co-invented by astronomer Fred Whipple, and Navy engineer Merwyn Bly.

While at Columbia, he co-invented the Savitzky-Halford ratio recording spectrophotometer, which was manufactured by Perkin-Elmer as the Model 13.

Felice Matteucci ( February 12, 1808-September 13, 1887 ) was an Italian hydraulic engineer who co-invented an internal combustion engine with Eugenio Barsanti.

The valve was co-invented by Donald Shiley.

Along with Donna Strickland, he co-invented a technique called chirped pulse amplification, or CPA, which was later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity ( terawatt ) laser pulses.

Early on at Minnesota Mining, he co-invented scotch-light, which was a glass bead coating used on road signs and highway paints to provide a reflective illumination.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

Another key player on the Eagles offense was halfback Wilbert Montgomery, who was widely considered one of the top running backs in the NFL and had rushed for over 1, 200 rushing yards in the last 2 seasons.

The " sit-in " technique was not new — as far back as 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia library.

KeenAgers was founded by the late Reverend Wilbert Staudenmaier.

The author of the documents, Wilbert Smith, was a UFOlogist working in the Canadian Department of Transport who is not known to have had any security clearance, and the skeptical researcher Christopher D. Allan concludes that there is no way any such group headed by Bush could have come to his knowledge.

Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's " Let's Work Together ", but when he was beaten to that song by Canned Heat, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to " I Hear You Knocking ", producing a highly original remake.

" Kansas City ", which was first recorded in 1952 ( as " K. C. Loving ") by rhythm & blues singer Little Willie Littlefield, became a No. 1 pop hit in 1959 for Wilbert Harrison.

During his time with the Robins, he was seen as a possible successor to manager Wilbert Robinson.

Wilbert Ross Thatcher, PC ( May 24, 1917 – July 22, 1971 ) was the ninth Premier of Saskatchewan, Canada, serving from 2 May 1964 to 30 June 1971.

* Wilbert Rideau, a prisoner who spent 44 years in jail until he was freed through a jury verdict

Wilbert Lee " Pappy " O ' Daniel ( March 11, 1890May 11, 1969 ) was a conservative Democratic Party politician from Texas, who came to prominence by hosting a popular radio program.

Ebbets Field was the scene of some early successes, as the " Robins " ( so-called for long-time manager Wilbert Robinson ) won league championships in 1916 and 1920.

* In 1994, the first remake of the film was a television movie, with Disney regular Scott Weinger as a teenaged Wilbert ' Wilby ' Joseph Daniels, and Ed Begley, Jr. playing a part similar to the one originated by Fred MacMurray in 1959.

Twenty-eight days after Alexander II's election an assembly of German and Lombard bishops and notables opposed to the reform movement was brought together at Basel by the Empress Agnes as regent for her son, Emperor Henry IV ( 1056 – 1105 ), and was presided over by the Imperial Chancellor Wilbert.

Midlands College of Commerce-The first black commercial college was founded in the early 1970s by Wilbert H. Shumba.

The stadium replaced the obsolete on-campus Riddick Stadium and was originally named Carter Stadium, in honor of Harry C. & Wilbert J.

During the late 1940s and the 1950s, the President of the Manitoba Social Credit League was Wilbert James Tinkler.

The Coffin affair was an event in Canadian history in which a man named Wilbert Coffin was hanged for the murder of three men.

The main suspect in the case was Wilbert Coffin, who was found to have many items belonging to the men in his possession.

Coffin's application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada was turned down but the federal Cabinet submitted a reference question to that Court asking: " If the application made by Wilbert Coffin for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada had been granted on any of the grounds alleged on the said application, what disposition of the appeal would now be made by the court?