Tommy Flowers, the man who built the first computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers
Flowers’s team at Dollis Hill built the first machine in eleven months. It was immediately dubbed ‘Colossus’ by the Bletchley Park staff for its immense proportions.
Flowers was left in debt after the war after using his own personal funds to build Colossus.
It was not until the 1970s that Flowers’ work in computing was fully acknowledged. His family had known only that he had done some ‘secret and important’ work.
Dang, we really should have learned about him in school. Talk about impact, and he even had a memorable name.
The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Colorado Coal Field War & accompanying Ludlow Massacre
The Colorado Labor Wars
The West Virginia Coal Wars
The Illinois Coal Wars
Just to name a few, and those are just from the US. People need to remember these events so they can understand the world capitalists want and what they’re willing to do to achieve it.
Josephine Baker
A black burlesque performer who left the US and moved to France because of discrimination, then became an Allied spy during WW2
She’s not overlooked, maybe not always talked about but her legacy and name are well known.
Ironically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta
Voltaire said: “Nothing is better known than the siege of Malta.”
Zhuangzi, easily one of the top 5 authors anywhere, ever.
The Taiping civil war ended a bit before the US civil war, lasted 3x as long and almost ended with china unified under a homegrown christian theocracy.
Leonhard Euler I think is not as well known in the general public
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is pretty much unknown enough that I felt the need to make his name a link.
I was surprised to see Euler here, I was like “he’s so famous” but then I remembered I literally have a degree in mathematics and I’m fully “of course quartz”-ing
Ha ha, I’m no good at maths but have two microscopes, so I knew Van Leeuwenhoek but not Euler.
Epstein files
Gladys West
Thomas Meagher
steinmetz
Like, just the profession in general?
just his impact in getting concepts to work in actual engineering. I mean don’t get me wrong we even have a school in the area named after him but if I had not read his bio I would not know anything about how our whole system of electrical generation came from him.
François de Cuvillié
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The Grand Canyon.
That is neither a person nor an event
It’s an event on a long enough timeline.
(Not sure if its a person, I don’t watch wrestling.)
