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.
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was one of the foremost American industrialists and innovators of the 20th century, and founder of the Ford Motor Company.
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British engineer and inventor who is most well known for devising a cheap process of manufacturing steel. Bessemer was born in 1813 in Charlton, Hertfordshire, England.
Heinrich Hertz
Dr Gustav Hertz, a barrister by profession and later a senator, and his wife Elisabeth on February 22, 1857 were blessed by a son in Hamburg, Germany who later was known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic waves, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) was an Austrian actress and inventor of the 20th century. She was born in 1914 in Vienna and was the only child of Gertrud and Emil Kiesler.
Hans Lippershey
Hans Lippershey (also known as Jan Lippersheim or Hans Lippersheim) was a Dutch inventor of the 16th century, most commonly associated with the invention of the world’s first telescope.
Gunther von Hagens
Gunther von Hagens is a German doctor and anatomist whose claim to fame is the invention of ” plastination” which is a scientific method of preserving living beings after they are dead.
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, engineer and physicist, widely known as the “Father of Radio”. He was born into an Aristocratic Italian family in 1874.
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.