Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (more popularly known as Ray Kurzweil) is an American computer scientist and inventor who is also a notable author and futurist.
American Inventors
Ray Dolby
Ray Milton Dolby was an American inventor and sound engineer who invented noise reduction technology, now widely used in cinemas.
Philo Farnsworth
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.
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.
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.
Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson was an American inventor of the 20th century, known primarily for her invention of the windscreen wiper.
Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker was an African-American entrepreneur who established a business selling hair care products to women in the 19th century.
Lonnie Johnson
Lonnie George Johnson is an American engineer who is famous for inventing the super soaker squirt gun, one of the most popular children’s toys in the world.