Inventors

Chemistry

Umetaro Suzuki

Umetaro Suzuki (1874-1943) was a Japanese agricultural chemist who in 1910 became the first person i

Born in 1854 in Takaoka, Japan, to a physician's family, Jokichi Takamine

Born in 1854 in Takaoka, Japan, to a physician's family, Jokichi Takamine was a chemist and entrepre

Born in Kyoto in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda

Born in Kyoto in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda was a chemist at Tokyo Imperial University who identified L-glu

printing

Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg

Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and printer

agriculture

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was an American agricultural scientist, botanist, and invent

crafts

Born in 1858 to an udon noodle maker in Toba

Born in 1858 to an udon noodle maker in Toba, Japan, Mikimoto Kokichi pioneered cultured pearl produ

accessibility

Louis Braille

Louis Braille (1809-1852) was a French educator and inventor who, blinded in an accident at age thre

ancient

Hero of Alexandria

Hero of Alexandria (c. 10-70 CE) was a Greek engineer and mathematician active in Roman-era Alexandr

Cai Lun

Cai Lun (c. 63-121 CE) was a court eunuch of China's Eastern Han dynasty who perfected the manufactu

automotive

Born in 1844 in southwestern Germany

Born in 1844 in southwestern Germany, Carl Benz designed and patented the world's first practical ga

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer, and industrialist. With his

aviation

Wilbur

Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright, bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, achieved the

communication

Samuel Morse

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter turned inventor who developed a single-wire telegra

Born in Bologna in 1874

Born in Bologna in 1874, Guglielmo Marconi turned Heinrich Hertz's electromagnetic wave theory into

John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor who demonstrated the wo

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was an Austrian-born Hollywood actress and inventor who, during World War II

Hidetsugu Yagi

Hidetsugu Yagi (1886-1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer and communications researcher. Togethe

Born in Edinburgh in 1847

Born in Edinburgh in 1847, Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized human communication by patenting the

Philo Farnsworth

Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971) was an American inventor who created the world's first fully electronic

computing

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engi

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee (1955-) is an English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, de

mechanical

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American engineer and inventor who developed the world's first comm

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney (1765-1825) was an American inventor who created the cotton gin in 1793, dramatically ac

Nicolaus Otto

Nicolaus Otto (1832-1891) was a German inventor and engineer who developed the first practical inter

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor who designed the compression

Tanaka Hisashige

Tanaka Hisashige (1799-1881) was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur active from the late Edo throu

George Stephenson

George Stephenson (1781-1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer known as the 'Father of R

Born in Scotland in 1736

Born in Scotland in 1736, James Watt transformed the steam engine from an inefficient mine-drainage