Leon Theremin
inventor of the theremin ("the thing"), one of the first electronic music instruments
Al Jacobs
Inventor of the three jaw drill chuck (Jacob's Chuck) in 1902
Alan Turing
inventor of computer programming, pioneer of the Universal Machine, mathematician, gay, World War II codebreaker
Alexander Graham Bell
inventor of the telephone in 1876, photophone, came from a family elocutionists rich in the arts of public speaking
Alexander Parkes
Chemist, metallurgist, inventor of Celluloid (nitrocellulose and camphor) in 1856 and Parkesine (later known as Xylonite), the first man-made thermoplastics
1813-1890 (77)
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Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle living
Alfred Nobel
chemist, industrialist, engineer, inventor of dynamite, engineer, the namesake Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel Prize) was established by his wealth via ownership of the Bofors armaments manufacturer
1833-1896 (63)
Aloysius Lilius
Bruce Ohms at IBM in 1986 coined the Lilian day number for the Gregorian calendar Oct 15, 1582.
Ambrose Fleming
Inventor, vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) and the Left Hand Rule
Andy Hertzfeld
Apple co-inventor of the original Macintosh computer, founder of Radius, General Magic and Eazel
Antoine Lavoisier
Chemist, diets, discovery of metabolism, inventor, Law of Conservation of Mass, guillotined during the French Revolution
1743-1794 (51)
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Antonio Meucci
Inventor of the first telephone, politician, partner at Giuseppe Garibaldi
Bill T. Gross living
computer programmer aka Bill Gross, co-founder of Idealab with Bill Elkus, chairman and CEO of Heliogen, early internet pioneer, inventor of the pay-per-click model (CPC / cost-per-click), founder of Overture (GoTo.com) acquired by Yahoo! for $1.6 billion, inventor of the HAL natural language interface to Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, founder of Solar Devices (1973), GNP Audio Video Loudspeakers, Knowledge Adventure (Jumpstart educational series) acquired by Vivendi, entrepreneur, keynote speaker
1944- (80)
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Louis Braille
Inventor, educator, pioneer of the Braille reading and writing system for the blind and persons who are visually impaired.
1809-1852 (43)
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Carl Djerassi
chemist, scientist, inventor of the oral contraception pill (or birth control pill) in 1951
Carl Josef Bayer
Chemist, metallurgist, inventor of the Bayer process marking the birth of hydrometallurgy
Charles Best
Medical scientist, physician, physiologist, co-discovery of insulin, founder of The Diabetes Association (Diabetes Canada)
1899-1978 (79)
Charles Goodyear
inventor, vulcanization of rubber sold under the brand Ebonite
Charles Henry Foyle
Inventor of the milk carton, Robert Gair started mass production of folding cartons and cardboard boxes in 1879
Charles Martin Hall
inventor, Hall–Héroult electrolytic method of smelting aluminum in 1886
Charles Tainter
inventor of sound recording instruments, father of the Speaking Machine, pioneer of the photophone, phonograph
Christiaan Huygens
Inventor of the pendulum clock in 1656 for timekeeping and transportation schedules
1629-1695 (66)
Chuck Geschke
Co-founder of Adobe Systems, inventor, co-creator of the PDF file format
1939-2021 (82)
Clement Studebaker
Automaker of the Studebaker, co-founder of the H & C Studebaker Company, Pennsylvania-German Conestoga wagons and carriage manufacturer
1831-1901 (70)
Dan Borislow
Entrepreneur, early Internet pioneer, inventor of MagicJack, founder of Tele-Save (AT&T), sports team owner, horse breeder
1961-2014 (53)
David Bushnell
Inventor of the first ever submarine
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Sir James Dewar
Inventor of the thermos in 1892, Dewar bottle or thermo flask, vacuum flask or the Dewar flask, physicist, chemist, known for liquid hydrogen/oxygen and cryogenic storage, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution in London
1842-1923 (81)
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Doug Hanahan
Biochemist, co-inventor of recombinant DNA technology, synthetic bacteria
Douglas Crockford
inventor of Tilton ugly programming language
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Dr. NakaMats
Inventor of the floppy disk, compact disc and holder of 3,500 patents
Dr. Earl Plunkett living
Gynecologist, physician, teacher, fertility research, co-inventor of the modern birth control pill with hormone replacement therapy
1922- (102)
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Earl Tupper
inventor of the bell-shaped container, founder of Tupperware
Ed Gray
Mechanical engineer, circuit boards, inventor of an engine that uses no fuel in 1984, pioneer in free energy and cold electricity
Edmund Cartwright
inventor of a wool-combing machine and closed-cycle alcohol engine
Edouard Benedictus
Inventor of safety glass, laminated glass, bulletproof glass
Edwin Drake
inventor, modern oil well, cable tool drilling learned from Chinese laborers
Eldridge Johnson
Inventor of the Victor Talking phonograph, Columbia Records used his patents, entrepreneur, industrialist, manufacturer of bookbinding machines and wire stitching, co-founder of Victor Talking Machine Company with Emile Berliner the inventor of the gramophone
Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin, during the economy of the Antebellum South
Elihu Thomson
Engineer, inventor with 700 patents, pioneer in electric arc lighting, AC electric power and DC electric power, co-founder of General Electric
1853-1937 (84)
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Ernst Alexanderson
inventor of the radio transmitting alternator for continuous sound waves in radio transmission in 1904
Eugen Langen
co-inventor of the Otto/Langen atmospheric engine (1867) and the first internal combustion engine (1876) for NA Otto & Cie (Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz AG)
Michael Farady
Scientist, pioneer of Faraday's law and in pyrolysis (fire), electromagnetic induction and the laws of electrolysis, inventor of the Dynamo electric generator (the electric motor)
Felix Wankel
mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine (1954), pioneer in pistonless engines and rotary designs
Ferdinand Verbiest
mathematician, astronomer, geometry teacher, music teacher, philosopher, cartographer, language translator, inventor and designer of the first self-propelled vehicle or automobile
Francis Thomas Bacon
Engineer, inventor of the alkaline fuel cell (or Bacon fuel cell), pioneer of hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells in 1932
1904-1992 (88)
Frederic A. Delano
Railroad tycoon, inventor of one-way glass in 1933, nephew of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frederick Scott Archer
Photographer, sculptor, inventor of the wet-collodion process in photography, preceding the gelatin process (sensitized gelatin emulsion)
1813-1857 (44)
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F.W. Wilcox
Inventor of the paper pail in 1894, oftened used as a Chinese takeout container
George Brayton
inventor of the first internal combustion engine (1872), pioneer in liquid-fueled internal combustion engines
George Cadbury
Co-founder of and younger brother in the Cadbury family dynasty, inventor of the recipe for Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars
1839-1922 (83)
George Klein
Inventor of the first electric-powered wheelchair and the microsurgical staple gun
Gil Hyatt
Inventor, multi-millionaire, sold part of his patents to Philips Electronics, infamously sued the State of Nevada and won a near half-billion settlement
Dr. Joseph Guillotin
Physician, politician, freemasonry, inventor of the Guillotine in 1789 for executions during the French Revolution
1738-1814 (76)
Johann Gutenberg
Printer, publisher, goldsmith merchant, engineer, inventor of the moveable-type printing press between 1440-1450, printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1452 printed on vellum animal skin membranes, sometimes mispelled "Johan Gutenburg"
Hans Lippershey
Spectacles, optics, optical lenses, patents holder, inventor of the telescope in 1608
1570-1619 (49)
Harry Brearley
Inventor of stainless steel in 1913, creating a steel with 12.8% chromium and 0.24% carbon.
Harry Ricardo
Engineer, researcher, inventor of the internal combustion engine, founder of Ricardo
Harvey Firestone
reinventor of car wheels, pioneer of the synthetic rubber for automotive production, founder of Firestone Tire & Rubber Company (1900)
1868-1938 (70)
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Heinrich Hertz
Hertz frequency or cycles per second, pioneer in electricity around electromagnetic waves, inventor of Electromagnetic Theory
Henry Bessemer
inventor of the steelmaking Bessemer industrial process for the mass-production of steel
Henry Makow living
Board game maker of Scruples, journalist, feminism writer, Ph.D. in English Literature, political commentator, politics, NWO whistleblower, author of Illuminati, A Long Way to Go for a Date
1949- (75)
henrymakow.com
Herman Hollerith
Inventor of Hollerith machines for punch cards in electromechanical tabulating machines for US census study, used by Auschwitz and Nazi camps
Humphry Davy
inventor of the Arc lamp, electrical lamps, or miner's safety lamps
Isaac Singer
Inventor of the sewing machine, co-founder of Singer, pioneer of financial tactic of payment installments
1811-1875 (64)
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Ivy Lee
Publicist, inventor of the press release, pioneer in modern public relations working for the Rockefeller family dynasty
Jack Emerson
inventor of biomedical devices, improved the iron lung breathing machine
1906-1997 (91)
polioplace.org
James Creighton
inventor of ice hockey in 1875 with McGill students at Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal, Canada
James Maxwell
inventor, discovery of electromagnetic fields, thermodynamics
James Watt
mechanical engineer, inventor of the steam engine in 1769, inventor of steam condensers, linear motion guides for pistons (1788)
Jean J. Lenoir
mechanical engineer aka Étienne Lenoir, inventor of the Lenoir cycle (1958) and Lenoir engine (1860), 2hp double-acting, electro-plating, pioneer in internal combustion engines that ran on illuminating gas
1822-1900 (78)
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John Boyd Dunlop
inventor of of commercially viable pneumatic tyres (rubber tires) in 1887, earlier patents were made by Robert William Thomson in 1847
1840-1921 (81)
bicyclehistory.net
John E. Strauss
inventor of the first closed-toe ice skates in 1914, creator of Strauss Skates
John Harrison
horologist, inventor of the marine chronometer in 1761 used for navigation of the seas
John Hopps
Inventor of the first cardiac pacemaker, discovered while researching hypothermia
John P. Thompson
inventor of the "Phillips head" screw driver and sold it to Henry F. Phillips