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• Inventor: Tim Berners-Lee
• Collaborator: Robert Cailliau
• Year of invention: 1989 August
• Organization: CERN (European physics lab, Switzerland)
• First website: 1991 (public release)
• WWWW stands for World-Wide Web Worm.

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• Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz independently developed calculus in the 17th century.
• Isaac Newton: Developed the method of fluxions.
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Developed much of the notation used in calculus today.

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• Walter Hunt patented the safety pin on April 10, 1849.
• He sold the patent rights for $400, which is approximately $14,000 today.

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• Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone.
• He was awarded the first successful patent for it.
• The telephone was invented in 1876.
• Bell made the first-ever telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson.

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Albert Einstein 

- Profession: Theoretical physicist.

- Century: One of the most influential physicists of the 20th century.

- 1905: Published four landmark scientific papers.

- Nobel Prize: Awarded for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, not the Special Theory of Relativity.