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.
American Inventors
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.
Jack Kilby
Born on 8th November, 1923, Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit, along with Robert Noyce.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American physicist who is often called the “father of the atomic bomb” due to the prominent role he played in the “Manhattan Project” during World War II.
Isaac Singer
An inventor, actor and entrepreneur by profession, Isaac Meritt Singer, was born on October 27th, 1811 in Pittstown, New York. He was born to Adam Singer and Ruth Benson and had a sister named Elizabeth Singer.
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith was an American statistician who invented one of the first modern data processors. Hollerith was born in 1860 to German immigrant parents in Buffalo, New York.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was one of the foremost American industrialists and innovators of the 20th century, and founder of the Ford Motor Company.
Granville T. Woods
Granville Tailer Woods was an African American inventor, and the first African American to be a mechanical and civil engineer. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1856 to a native American mother and African American father, which made him a child of mixed race.
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse was an American inventor, industrialist and engineer who was a pioneer in the field of railway transport and electricity.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was a talented and accomplished African American inventor, born in a time of slavery. His parents were Mary and Giles, a couple owned by a German American immigrant named Moses Carver.