Inventors and Scientists

Saw machines whole before he built them. His alternating current lit the world.

Painted pictures that changed painting, and filled notebooks that anticipated science by centuries.

The telescope, the moons of Jupiter, and the trial that forced him into silence.

Discovered the law of gravitation and the calculus, yet thought he was only gathering pebbles on the shore of the ocean of truth.

Walked to Moscow — and went on to found a university.

By stubbornness and order he found the law of the elements, which became the map of all chemistry.

Discovered polonium and radium, won the Nobel Prize twice, and paid for it with her health.

The lever, displaced water, and the machines that defended Syracuse.