Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper was an American inventor, businessman, and philanthropist of the 19th century, born in New York City in 1791. Cooper did not receive much schooling and was apprenticed to his father at an early age.
Percy Spencer
Percy Lebaron Spencer was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the microwave. Spencer was born in Howland, Maine in 1894.
Paul Winchell
Paul Winchell was an American entertainer, comedian, and inventor. He was born in 1922 in New York. As a child, he was very shy and used to stutter, which made him even more shy and retiring.
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke was a German physicist, scientist, inventor, and politician of the 17th century, who was a pioneer in the science of vacuums.
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal was a German aviation expert, credited with being the first person in history for making multiple successful gliding flights.
Ole Kirk Christiansen
Ole Kirk Christiansen was a Danish carpenter and creator of one of the most beloved children’s toy companies of all time, LEGO.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a visionary physicist and inventor of the twentieth century. Born in an Orthodox Christian household in 1856 in Serbia, Tesla studied in Austria and Prague and later migrated to the USA where he stayed till his death in 1943.
Nicolas Appert
Nicolas Appert, born on November 17, 1749 in Chalons-sur-Marne, France, was a chef who is best remembered for the invention of airtight food preservation.
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist and courtier who lived during the Heian period. She was born in 973 AD to the Fujiwara family.
Muhammad Yunus
Professor Muhammad Yunus, popularly known as “Banker to the Poor”, is a Bangladeshi economist, Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in the field of microcredit.