Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British scientist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who is famous for inventing the incandescent light bulb.
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was an English theologian and philosopher who is widely credited with the discovery of oxygen. He was born near Yorkshire in 1733.
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry was a prominent American scientist who is famous for his pioneering work with electricity and electromagnetism. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York.
John Venn
John Venn was a renowned British mathematician and logician of the 19th century. He is most well remembered for the standardization and widespread use of “Venn diagrams” in the study of probability and statistics, logic and computer science.
John Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton was the inventor of Coca Cola, perhaps the best known soft drink in the world today. Pemberton was an American pharmacist, born in 1831 in Knoxville, Georgia.
John Napier
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer, best known for the invention of logarithms. He was born into the Scottish nobility in 1550
John Moses Browning
John Moses Browning was one of the 20th century’s most famous gun makers in the world. He was born in Utah on January 23, 1855 to Jonathan Browning and Elizabeth Clark.
John Miller
John Miller (born August John Mueller) was one of the most ingenious and influential roller coaster designers in the world. Miller was born in 1872 in Homewood, Illinois.
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor and one of the pioneers of the invention of television. Baird was born in 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, and was the youngest child of the Reverend John Baird and Jessie Morrison Inglis.
John Harrison
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker of the eighteenth century who solved the “longitude” problem by inventing the first practical chronometer to enable navigation at sea via the use of longitudes.