Inventors

Manufacturing

Werner von Siemens

Born in 1816 in Germany, Werner von Siemens was an electrical engineer and industrialist who establi

Chemistry

Umetarō Suzuki

Umetaro Suzuki (1874-1943) was a Japanese agricultural chemist who in 1910 became the first person i

Kikunae Ikeda

Born in Kyoto in 1864, Kikunae Ikeda was a chemist at Tokyo Imperial University who identified L-glu

Takamine Jōkichi

Born in 1854 in Takaoka, Japan, to a physician's family, Jokichi Takamine was a chemist and entrepre

Engineering

Wernher von Braun

German-born rocket engineer (1912-1977) who developed the V-2 for Nazi Germany and later led NASA's

automotive

Carl Benz

Born in 1844 in southwestern Germany, Carl Benz designed and patented the world's first practical ga

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer, and industrialist. With his

ancient

Cai Lun

Cai Lun (c. 63-121 CE) was a court eunuch of China's Eastern Han dynasty who perfected the manufactu

Hero of Alexandria

Hero of Alexandria (c. 10-70 CE) was a Greek engineer and mathematician active in Roman-era Alexandr

crafts

Mikimoto Kōkichi

Born in 1858 to an udon noodle maker in Toba, Japan, Mikimoto Kokichi pioneered cultured pearl produ

computing

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engi

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee (1955-) is an English computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, de

accessibility

Louis Braille

Louis Braille (1809-1852) was a French educator and inventor who, blinded in an accident at age thre

aviation

Wright brothers

Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright, bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, achieved the

agriculture

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was an American agricultural scientist, botanist, and invent

printing

Johannes Gutenberg

Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and printer

communication

John Logie Baird

John Logie Baird (1888-1946) was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor who demonstrated the wo

Guglielmo Marconi

Born in Bologna in 1874, Guglielmo Marconi turned Heinrich Hertz's electromagnetic wave theory into

Alexander Graham Bell

Born in Edinburgh in 1847, Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized human communication by patenting the

Philo Farnsworth

Philo Farnsworth (1906-1971) was an American inventor who created the world's first fully electronic

Hidetsugu Yagi

Hidetsugu Yagi (1886-1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer and communications researcher. Togethe

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was an Austrian-born Hollywood actress and inventor who, during World War II

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) was an American painter turned inventor who developed a single-wire telegra

mechanical

Nicolaus Otto

Nicolaus Otto (1832-1891) was a German inventor and engineer who developed the first practical inter

James Watt

Born in Scotland in 1736, James Watt transformed the steam engine from an inefficient mine-drainage

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American engineer and inventor who developed the world's first comm

Tanaka Hisashige

Tanaka Hisashige (1799-1881) was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur active from the late Edo throu

George Stephenson

George Stephenson (1781-1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer known as the 'Father of R

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney (1765-1825) was an American inventor who created the cotton gin in 1793, dramatically ac

Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor who designed the compression