Ten Influential People in History

in no particular order....

1) Charles Darwin - where would we be without the theory of evolution
2) Thomas Edison - many of us would be sitting in the dark right now without this guy...
3) Adam Smith – Father of Economics and most importantly capitalism
4) Alexander Graham Bell – who could imagine the world right now without the telephone
5) Gregory Pincus - developed birth-control pill
6) Gregor Mendel - Mendelian genetics
7) Bill Gates - Love him or hate him he changed the computing world
8) Susan B Anthony - Campaigned against slavery and worked for women's rights, including the right to vote
9) Henry Ford - invented the car and the assembly line
10) SCOTT BROTHERS - Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857. His new toilet paper was composed of flat sheets. Before Gayetty's invention, people tore pages out of mail order catalogs - before catalogs were common, leaves were used. Unfortunately, Gayetty's invention failed. Walter Alcock (of Great Britain) later developed toilet paper on a roll ( instead of in flat sheets). Again, the invention failed.
In 1867, Thomas, Edward and Clarence Scott (brothers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) were successful at marketing toilet paper that consisted of a small roll of perforated paper . They sold their new toilet paper from a push cart - this was the beginning of the Scott Paper Company