Nikola Tesla10 July 1856, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Thomas Edison11 February 1847, American
Inventor, Businessman
Orville Wright19 August 1871, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Alexander Graham Bell03 March 1847, Canadian, Scottish
Inventor of Telephone
George Washington Carver01 January 1864, American
Scientist & Inventor
Alfred Nobel21 October 1833, Swedish
Garrett Morgan04 March 1877, American
Inventor
John Harvey Kellogg26 February 1852, American
Doctor, Inventor
Guglielmo Marconi25 April 1874, Italian
Inventor
Dmitri Mendeleev08 February 1834, Russian
Inventor of Periodic Table
Lewis Howard Latimer04 September 1848, American
Inventor
Louis Braille04 January 1809, French
Inventor of Braille
George Westinghouse06 October 1846, American
Entrepreneur
John Logie Baird13 August 1888, British, Scottish
Engineer
Francis Galton16 February 1822, British
Polymath
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882, American
Physicist
Rudolf Diesel18 March 1858, German, French
Inventor of Diesel Engine
James Chadwick20 October 1891, British
Discoverer of Neutron
Granville Woods23 April 1856, American
Inventor
George Eastman12 July 1854, American
Inventor of Roll Film
Sarah E. Goode1855 AD, American
Inventor
Alberto Santos Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Brazilian aviator
Richard Trevithick13 April 1771, British
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport
Nicéphore Niépce07 March 1765, French
Creator of World's First Permanent Photographic
Gottlieb Daimler17 March 1834, German
Engineer
Antonio Meucci13 April 1808, Italian, American
Inventor of voice-communication apparatus
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863, Belgian, American
Chemist & Inventor
Adolphe Sax06 November 1814, Belgian
Inventor of Saxophone
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821, German
Physicist and Physician
Louis Daguerre18 November 1787, French
Artist
Barnes Wallis26 September 1887, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Continue Reading Below
Cyrus McCormick15 February 1809, American
Inventor of mechanical reaper
Werner von Siemens13 December 1816, German
Inventor
Christopher Latham Sholes14 February 1819, American
Inventor of the QWERTY Keyboard
Herman Hollerith29 February 1860, American
Father of modern automatic computation
David Unaipon28 September 1872, Australian
Preacher
Henry Bessemer19 January 1813, British
Inventor
Lee de Forest26 August 1873, American
Father of Radio
Edith Clarke10 February 1883, American
Electrical Engineer
Emile Berliner20 May 1851, American
Inventor
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
Willem Einthoven21 May 1860, Dutch
Inventor of the first practical ECG
Louis Lumière05 October 1864, French
Inventor of Cinematographer
Kirkpatrick Macmillan02 September 1812, Scottish
Inventor of Pedal Bicycle
Beulah Louise Henry11 February 1887, American
Lady Edison
Auguste Lumière19 October 1862, French
Engineer
Wilbur Wright16 April 1867, American
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883, American
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Charles Martin Hall06 December 1863, American
Inventor
Francis William Aston01 September 1877, British
Chemist & Physicist
Alexander Bain01 October 1811, Scottish
Inventor of Electric Clock
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
Frank Hornby15 May 1863, British
Inventor
Lawrence Hargrave29 January 1850, Australian
Inventor & Explorer
Mary Walton1827 AD, American
Inventor
Gustaf Dalén30 November 1869, Swedish
Inventor of Automatic Regulators, AGA Cookers,
Charles F. Kettering29 August 1876, American
Inventor, Engineer & Businessman
Jozef Murgaš17 February 1864, Slovak
Inventor
Aurel Stodola10 May 1859, Slovak
Engineer
Olive Dennis20 November 1885, American
Civil Engineer
James Naismith06 November 1861, Canadian, American
Inventor
John Pemberton08 July 1831, American
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
Marcel Dassault22 January 1892, French
Politician, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Aerospace
Alberto Santos-Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Aviator, Inventor, Balloonist
Max Fleischer19 July 1883, American
Animator
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable1745 AD, Haitian, American
Pioneer
Peter Carl Fabergé18 May 1846, Russian
jeweller, inventor, artist
Robert Watson-Watt13 April 1892, British, Scottish
Developer
Clarence Birdseye09 December 1886, American
Inventor, Engineer
Royal Rife16 May 1888, American
Inventor
Léon Theremin15 August 1896, Russian
Inventor, Engineer, Physicist, Scientist
William Thornton20 May 1759, British, American
Physician
Louis Le Prince28 August 1841, French
Inventor, Film director, Cinematographer
Theodore Miller Edison10 July 1898, American
Inventor
Joseph Swan31 October 1828, British
Chemist, Physicist, Inventor
William G. Morgan23 January 1870, American
Inventor, Teacher, Volleyball player,
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier26 August 1740, French
Aviator
L. L. Zamenhof15 December 1859, Polish
Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet,
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800, American
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Hiram Maxim05 February 1840, British, American
Inventor
Elisha Otis03 August 1811, American
Inventor, Technician
Otto Lilienthal23 May 1848, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Aviator, Inventor
Robert Bosch23 September 1861, Austrian, German
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Artisan
Ferdinand von Zeppelin08 July 1838, German
Inventor
Isaac Singer27 October 1811, American
Actor, Inventor
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803, German
Scientist
Auguste Piccard28 January 1884, Swiss, American
Chemist
Willis Carrier26 November 1876, American
Engineer, Inventor
Mary Anderson19 February 1866, American
inventor
James W. Marshall08 October 1810, American
Joiner, Carpenter
Josephine Cochrane08 March 1839, American
inventor
Hugo Gernsback16 August 1884, Luxembourgian, American
Inventor
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,