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=Famous Inventors of Ancient Rome=

In ancient Rome, inventors were not recorded and there is no information on why the inventors were recorded, so instead I will have to talk about the more modern Roman inventors. One of those inventors who is very famous is **Leonardo Da Vinci** (1452 AD - 1529 AD), who was an artist, inventor,and scientist. Leonardo also made detailed sketches and designes of the airplane and helicopter! Along with the parachute, the submarine and solar power! He did this because he had an interest in engineering, but as these were invented without his help, the notes for these were later discovered as he had no intention on sharing it to improve science. He was mostly known as a painter and from his very famous art piece the //Mona Lisa//, a painting that is currently owned by the government of France and the woman in the painting's identity is unknown. He did at the age of seventy-seven due to old age.

Another famous inventor who is known very well is **Galileo Galilei (**1564 AD - 1642 AD) who was an Italian physician, mathamatician and astronomer. Galileo invented a modern version of the thermometer and was the first person to use a telescope, he also discovered the rings of Saturn and was the first person to see the moons on Jupiter. Because of his discoveries he has been nicknamed 'father of modern observational astronomy'. Galileo was Cathlic and fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. Galileo also faced trouble when he supported a theory that the sun was in the center of the universe and faced bitter opposition of clerics and philosophers who reported him to the Roman Inquisition (being catholic he was expected to support the theory that the earth was at the center of the universe). He was threatened to stop supporting the theory and he did. He died after he came down with insomnia and hernia, not only that but due to a failed opperation he was completley blinded and died at the age of seventy-eight.

One more famous Roman inventor was **Alessandro Volta** (1745 AD - 1827 AD) who was an Italian physicist was mostly known for his invention of the battery. His whole life he enjoyed working with electronics, such as an invention that wasn't well known called the electrophorus, a device that produced a small static charge, but when Alessandro improved the electrophorus he made it popular. He also studied gases in chemistry and also discovered the gas that humans produce called 'methane'. At the age of thirty-four he became a professor at the University of Pavia and worked there for approximatley twenty-five years until he married a woman named Teresa Peregrini and raised three children with her. At the age of sixty-five, in honor of his past work he was made a count by Napoleon and retired at the age of seventy-four. he died at the age of eighty-two due to old age.

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