John Deere
John Deere was an American blacksmith who founded the “Deere & Company” which is now one of the largest equipment manufacturers in the world.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and engineer who is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics. Bardeen was born in Wisconsin in 1908.
John Barber
John Barber was an English inventor of the 18th century. He is most well known for inventing a gas turbine. Not much is known about his personal life, other than that he was born in 1734 in Nottinghamshire.
Johannes Gutenberg
The name of Johannes Gutenberg will forever be associated with arguably one of the most important events of the modern age, that is the “Print Revolution” brought about in the mid-fifteenth century.
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, best known for improvements made to the Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
James Naismith
The innovator of the Basketball game, James Naismith, a physical education teacher by profession, was born on November 6th, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. He received his early education from a private school and later attended McGill University in Montreal. He served as a sports director at the university and then moved to Young Men’s Christian …
James Hargreaves
The spinning Jenny, one of the most important devices which brought advancement in production of textiles in the industrial revolution, was invented by James Hargreaves.
James Dyson
James Dyson was born on May 2nd, 1947 in Cromer, England. He received his early education in Norfolk. He went to Byam Shaw School of Arts for a year and then was advised by his career counselor to become an estate agent.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish Physicist, was born in Edinburgh on June 13th, 1831. He was the only child to John Clerk, his father, who also was a lawyer by profession and mother, Frances, his first teacher.
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a prominent Bengali physicist during the British Raj in India. He was born in Bikrampur (now in present day Bangladesh) on November 30, 1858.