Great Inventors
22 entries in the Great Inventors compendium.
Great Inventors — Era Chart
Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman; held 1,093 U.S. patents.Nikola TeslaSerbian-American inventor of the modern AC electricity system.Alexander Graham BellInventor, scientist, and engineer who received numerous honors and tributes during his lifThe Wright brothersAmerican aviation pioneers who invented, built, and flew the world's first successful airpJohannes GutenbergGerman inventor of the movable-type printing press.James WattScottish inventor who improved the steam engine, driving the Industrial Revolution.Eli WhitneyInventor of the cotton gin and advocate of interchangeable parts.Samuel MorseAmerican inventor and painter who co-developed Morse code.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 PasteurFrench chemist and microbiologist; pioneered vaccination, pasteurization, and germ theory.Benjamin FranklinFounding Father, scientist, inventor, and diplomat.Leonardo da VinciItalian polymath of the High Renaissance.ArchimedesAncient Greek mathematician 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 Karl BenzGerman engine designer and automotive engineer who created the first practical automobile.Rudolf DieselGerman inventor of the diesel engine.John Logie BairdScottish inventor who demonstrated the first mechanical television system on 26 January 19Philo FarnsworthMad scientist proprietor of Planet Express.
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