Great Inventors
22 entries in the Great Inventors compendium.
Thomas EdisonThe Wizard of Menlo Park who lit up the worldNikola TeslaSerbian-American inventor of the modern AC electricity system.Alexander Graham BellInventor of the first practical telephone and pioneer in sound transmission.The Wright brothersAmerican aviation pioneers who invented, built, and flew the world's first successful airplane.Johannes GutenbergGerman inventor of the movable-type printing press.James WattScottish inventor who improved the steam engine with a separate condenser, powering the Industrial Revolution.Eli WhitneyInventor of the cotton gin and advocate of interchangeable parts.Samuel MorseAmerican inventor and painter, co-developer of Morse code and the single-wire telegraph.Guglielmo MarconiItalian inventor of practical wireless telegraphy and Nobel laureate.George WestinghouseInventor of the railway air brake and AC power pioneer.Alfred NobelSwedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes.Louis PasteurFather of bacteriology and pioneer of pasteurizationBenjamin FranklinFounding Father, scientist, inventor, and diplomat.Leonardo da VinciItalian polymath of the High Renaissance.ArchimedesAncient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor of Syracuse.Hedy LamarrActress and co-inventor of a radio guidance system.Grace HopperPioneer of machine-independent programming and COBOL language.Tim Berners-LeePhysicist and contractor at CERN who proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, specified HTML, and wrote the first…Karl BenzGerman engine designer and automotive engineer who created the first practical automobile.Rudolf DieselInventor of the diesel engineJohn Logie BairdScottish inventor who demonstrated the first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926.Philo FarnsworthThe inventor of the first all-electronic television system.
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