Jacques Cousteau, a French inventor, marine explorer, conservationist, military leader, photographer and a filmmaker, better known for his famed ship Calypso, was born on 11th June 1910 in the village of Saint-André-de-Cubzac, in southwestern France.
Born on 8th November, 1923, Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American physicist who is often called the “father of the atomic bomb” due to the prominent role he played in the “Manhattan Project” during World War II.
An inventor, actor and entrepreneur by profession, Isaac Meritt Singer, was born on October 27th, 1811 in Pittstown, New York. He was born to Adam Singer and Ruth Benson and had a sister named Elizabeth Singer.
Isaac Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential philosophers, mathematicians and physicists that the world has ever seen.
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, the father of helicopters, was born on May 25th, 1889. He was given this title not because he invented the helicopter but because his designs were a pioneer.
Humphry Davy, better known for his contributions to the discoveries of chlorine and iodine, was born on December 17th, 1778 near Penzance, Cornwall to a woodcarver.
Herman Hollerith was an American statistician who invented one of the first modern data processors. Hollerith was born in 1860 to German immigrant parents in Buffalo, New York.
Henry Ford was one of the foremost American industrialists and innovators of the 20th century, and founder of the Ford Motor Company.
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British engineer and inventor who is most well known for devising a cheap process of manufacturing steel. Bessemer was born in 1813 in Charlton, Hertfordshire, England.