- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the speaking telephone (1847- ——).
- Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor (1847- ——).
- G. Marconi, Italian inventor of wireless telegraph (1875- ——).
- K. W. Röntgen (1845- ——).
- Andrew Carnegie, American capitalist and philanthropist (1835- ——).
- Emile Berliner, German-American inventor (1851- ——).
- Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (1863- ——).
- William Randolph Hearst, publicist and newspaper publisher (1863- ——).
- First Baron Alfred Charles William Harmsworth Northcliffe, English newspaper proprietor (1865- ——).
- Orville Wright, American inventor and aeronaut (1871- ——).
- Captain Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer and navigator (1872- ——).
- Robert Edwin Peary, American arctic explorer and officer U. S. N. (1856- ——).
- Phebe Apperson Hearst (née Apperson), American philanthropist (1842- ——).
THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED THE RED CROSS
The above picture shows Florence Nightingale at the ancient town of Scutari, opposite Constantinople, during the Crimean war. It was here and in the Crimea that this gentle Englishwoman laid the foundation for the systematic relief of the intense suffering that is a necessary part of war, and which later led to organized army hospitals and the associated work of the Red Cross. A highly educated and brilliantly accomplished woman, she early equipped herself as a trained nurse, and devoted her life to the alleviation of suffering and distress.
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