A doctor by training, and an intellectual magpie by inclination, his work on the persistence of vision would lead, eventually, to the invention of cinema. He studied Dante, water purification, dinosaur bones, phrenology and insects. He worked at the Pneumatic Institution for Inhalation Gas Therapy, where Coleridge came to breathe nitrous oxide. He helped to create the slide rule and London's sewerage system. He invented the first travel chess set.
But the guy is best remembered for something which he created. He was inspired by the great taxonomist Carl Linneaus, who codified and classified plants and animals.
Who is the great guy and his claim to fame?
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Dewey of Dewey decimal system for libraries ?
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