Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American inventor of the 19th century who developed the first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton was born in Pennsylvania on November 14, 1765.
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Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was a British engineer of the eighteenth century, widely believed to have invented the world’s first steam locomotive.
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.
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.
Otto von Guericke
Otto von Guericke was a German physicist, scientist, inventor, and politician of the 17th century, who was a pioneer in the science of vacuums.
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal was a German aviation expert, credited with being the first person in history for making multiple successful gliding flights.