John Miller
John Miller (born August John Mueller) was one of the most ingenious and influential roller coaster designers in the world. Miller was born in 1872 in Homewood, Illinois.
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John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor and one of the pioneers of the invention of television. Baird was born in 1888 in Helensburgh, Scotland, and was the youngest child of the Reverend John Baird and Jessie Morrison Inglis.
John Harrison
John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker of the eighteenth century who solved the “longitude” problem by inventing the first practical chronometer to enable navigation at sea via the use of longitudes.
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.
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.
John Barber
John Barber was an English inventor of the 18th century. He is most well known for inventing a gas turbine. Not much is known about his personal life, other than that he was born in 1734 in Nottinghamshire.
Johannes Gutenberg
The name of Johannes Gutenberg will forever be associated with arguably one of the most important events of the modern age, that is the “Print Revolution” brought about in the mid-fifteenth century.
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, best known for improvements made to the Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
James Naismith
The innovator of the Basketball game, James Naismith, a physical education teacher by profession, was born on November 6th, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. He received his early education from a private school and later attended McGill University in Montreal. He served as a sports director at the university and then moved to Young Men’s Christian …
James Hargreaves
The spinning Jenny, one of the most important devices which brought advancement in production of textiles in the industrial revolution, was invented by James Hargreaves.