For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

The ultimate development of the grammar school was by Joseph Lancaster and Andrew Bell who developed the monitorial system.

He did relieve the cautious but capable Joseph E. Johnston and replaced him with the reckless John Bell Hood, resulting in the loss of Atlanta and the eventual loss of an army.

Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

As Doyle remarked to muse Joseph Bell, " Holmes is as inhuman as a Babbage's calculating machine and just about as likely to fall in love ".

At Bell Labs Clinton Joseph Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer guided their beam through a crystalline grid.

In November 1696, a subsequent claim was made to the island by Sir Peter van Bell, the agent of Sir Joseph Shepheard, a Rotterdam merchant, who claimed to have purchased Tortola on 21 June 1695, for 3, 500 guilders.

Other Teen Idol's from TV at around the same time were most of the cast of Saved by the Bell, Rider Strong of Boy Meets World, Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock From the Sun, Joey Lawrence of Blossom ( and to a lesser extent, Joey's brothers, Matthew and Andrew ), Jason Priestley and Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, and Erik Von Detten of various TGIF shows.

He hoped for an independent command, but his desires were thwarted in two instances: Lee chose Lt. Gen. Jubal Early to lead an expedition north through the Shenandoah Valley and threaten Washington, and Davis chose Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood to replace the faltering Joseph E. Johnston in the Atlanta Campaign.

The office reopened as " Curtisville " on December 29, 1897, with cattle dealer Joseph Bell as postmaster.

His great grandson was Joseph Bell who Arthur Conan Doyle has credited Sherlock Holmes as being loosely based on from Bell's observant manner.

* Dr Joseph Bell, now recognised as the model for Sherlock Holmes.

* The Book of Jewish Values, Joseph Telushkin, Bell Tower, 2000.

During the mid-1970s, Joseph Ossanna, working at Bell Laboratories, wrote the troff typesetting program to drive a Wang C / A / T phototypesetter owned by the Labs ; it was later enhanced by Brian Kernighan to support output to different equipment, such as laser printers and the like.

Joseph F. Ossanna ( December 10, 1928, Detroit, Michigan-November 28, 1977, Morristown, New Jersey ) was a Member of the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

* William Joseph Bell ( 1927 – 2005 ), producer

Joseph Bell died on 4 October 1911.

In 2006, Stone Publishing House published a book aimed at schoolchildren titled Dr Joseph Bell – the original Sherlock Holmes.

A bronze plaque was erected to Joseph Bell at 2 Melville Crescent, Edinburgh on 8th October 2011, marking the centenary of his death.

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* Joseph Call ( born 31 March 1781 near Woodstock, VT ; died 20 September 1835 in Westport, NY ), the " Lewis Giant ," was a strongman and wrestler of widespread fame, as well as a Postmaster, millwright, Logger, Town Assessor, Auditor, JP, War Veteran and Teamster.

Born at 22 Merrion Square, Dublin, Gibson was the son of William Gibson JP, of Rockforest, County Tipperary and Merrion Square, Dublin, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant, barrister, of Dublin.

About 40 turned up on the day of the trial, including Woolf herself, Forster and such diverse figures as biologist Julian Huxley, Laurence Housman of the British Sexological Society, Robert Cust JP of the London Morality Council, Charles Ricketts of the Royal Academy of Art and Rabbi Joseph Frederick Stern of the East London Synagogue.

Joseph Warner Henley PC, DL, JP ( 3 March 1793 – 8 December 1884 ), often simply J. W. Henley, was a British Conservative politician, best known for serving in the protectionist governments of Lord Derby in the 1850s.

Joseph Albert " Jack " Pease, 1st Baron Gainford PC, DL, JP ( 17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943 ), known as Jack Pease before 1917, was a British businessman and Liberal politician.

* Joseph Minucci-OL / DL

Niranjan Joseph " Nirj " De Silva Deva-Aditya FRSA DL ( born 11 May 1948 ) is a politician from the United Kingdom.

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.

Matthew 2: 13 cites Hosea's prophecy in that God would call His Son out of Egypt as foretelling the flight into Egypt and return to Israel of Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus Christ.

The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

" Joseph ( 1989: IJDL 18. 2: 134-42 ) gives extensive references to the use of the term, dramila first as the name of a people, then of a country.

* Szimhart, Joseph: Persistence of " Deprogramming " Stereotypes in Film, Cultic Studies Journal, 3 / 2 2004

The first EVA repairs of a spacecraft were made by Charles " Pete " Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz on May 26, June 7 and June 19, 1973, on the Skylab 2 mission.

Lynch defeated Republican challenger Joseph Kenney, a State Senator and U. S. Marine, 70 % to 28 %, with 2 % of the vote won by the Libertarian candidate.

Mormon history can be divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century.

Paul Joseph Cohen ( April 2, 1934 — March 23, 2007 ) was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.

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* Robert Anton Wilson On Finnegans Wake and Joseph Campbell ( interview by Faustin Bray and Brian Wallace ) ( 1988 ) 2 CD Set Sound Photosynthesis

However the première of the opera was postponed because Meyerhold was arrested on 20 June 1939 by the NKVD ( Joseph Stalin's Secret Police ), and shot on 2 February 1940.

* Joseph M. Linzy Sr., " Genealogy of Solomon Northup's 4th-generation descendant, Joseph M. Linzy Sr ."-Chart 2, Image of typed chart, n. d., hosted at Geocities. com

* May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, U. S. Senator ( b. 1908 )

* June 2 – Joseph Farnham, American screenwriter ( b. 1884 )

The " Big Three " at the Yalta Conference, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, February 2, 1945.

* November 6 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule ( the first time was earlier that year on July 2 ).

* May 26 & June 2 – Geologist Joseph Prestwich and amateur archaeologist John Evans report ( to the Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries of London, respectively ) the results of their investigations of gravel-pits in the Somme valley and elsewhere, extending human history back to what will become known as the Paleolithic Era.

* July 2 – Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( b. 1876 )

* May 2 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist ( d. 1981 )

* September 2 – Joseph Roth, Austrian writer ( d. 1939 )

* April 2 – Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1647 )