Robert Norton Noyce was a Silicon Valley pioneer who cofounded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation. He also co-invented the Integrated Circuit and introduced the microprocessor – both of which have revolutionized technology and electronics as we know today.
Robert Moog (formally Robert Arthur Moog) is best known as the founder of Moog music and the inventor of the Moog synthesizer . Moog was born in 1934 and lived in New York City for most of his life.
Ruth Handler (née Mosko) was an inventor and businesswoman, famous for being one of the founding members of the toy giant Mattel Inc. and for inventing the most famous doll in the world, namely Barbie.
Rudolf Diesel (formally Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel) was a thermal engineer and inventor of German descent, best known for the invention of the diesel engine.
American physicist and inventor Robert Goddard was the first person to invent and create the world’s first liquid fuel rocket. Born in Massachusetts in 1859, Goddard was interested in engineering and technology from an early age.
Robert Fulton was an American inventor of the 19th century who developed the first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton was born in Pennsylvania on November 14, 1765.
Richard Trevithick was a British engineer of the eighteenth century, widely believed to have invented the world’s first steam locomotive.
Raymond Kurzweil (more popularly known as Ray Kurzweil) is an American computer scientist and inventor who is also a notable author and futurist.
Ray Milton Dolby was an American inventor and sound engineer who invented noise reduction technology, now widely used in cinemas.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor, best remembered for his contributions to the invention of the television. Farnsworth was born to a Mormon family in 1906 in his grandfather’s log cabin in the small town of Beaver, Utah.