Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz was a German engineer and entrepreneur who designed and developed the world’s first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine.
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Justus von Liebig
Justus Freiherr von Liebig was a German chemist, who conducted crucial research in the areas of organic and inorganic chemistry, agricultural chemistry, physiology, and biochemistry.
Juan de la Cierva
Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu was a Spanish aeronautical and civil engineer, and pilot who is famous for the invention of the autogyro, the precursor to the helicopter.
Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British scientist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who is famous for inventing the incandescent light bulb.
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley was an English theologian and philosopher who is widely credited with the discovery of oxygen. He was born near Yorkshire in 1733.
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry was a prominent American scientist who is famous for his pioneering work with electricity and electromagnetism. Henry was born in 1797 in Albany, New York.
John Venn
John Venn was a renowned British mathematician and logician of the 19th century. He is most well remembered for the standardization and widespread use of “Venn diagrams” in the study of probability and statistics, logic and computer science.
John Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton was the inventor of Coca Cola, perhaps the best known soft drink in the world today. Pemberton was an American pharmacist, born in 1831 in Knoxville, Georgia.
John Napier
John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer, best known for the invention of logarithms. He was born into the Scottish nobility in 1550
John Moses Browning
John Moses Browning was one of the 20th century’s most famous gun makers in the world. He was born in Utah on January 23, 1855 to Jonathan Browning and Elizabeth Clark.