Nikola Tesla10 July 1856, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Thomas Edison11 February 1847, American
Inventor, Businessman
Alexander Graham Bell03 March 1847, Canadian, Scottish
Inventor of Telephone
George Washington Carver01 January 1864, American
Scientist & Inventor
Alfred Nobel21 October 1833, Swedish
Guglielmo Marconi25 April 1874, Italian
Inventor
John Harvey Kellogg26 February 1852, American
Doctor, Inventor
Lewis Howard Latimer04 September 1848, American
Inventor
Dmitri Mendeleev08 February 1834, Russian
Inventor of Periodic Table
George Westinghouse06 October 1846, American
Entrepreneur
Francis Galton16 February 1822, British
Polymath
John Logie Baird13 August 1888, British, Scottish
Engineer
George Eastman12 July 1854, American
Inventor of Roll Film
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882, American
Physicist
Garrett Morgan04 March 1877, American
Inventor
Antonio Meucci13 April 1808, Italian, American
Inventor of voice-communication apparatus
Louis Braille04 January 1809, French
Inventor of Braille
Rudolf Diesel18 March 1858, German, French
Inventor of Diesel Engine
Nicéphore Niépce07 March 1765, French
Creator of World's First Permanent Photographic
Gottlieb Daimler17 March 1834, German
Engineer
Adolphe Sax06 November 1814, Belgian
Inventor of Saxophone
James Chadwick20 October 1891, British
Discoverer of Neutron
Hermann von Helmholtz31 August 1821, German
Physicist and Physician
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863, Belgian, American
Chemist & Inventor
Barnes Wallis26 September 1887, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Lee de Forest26 August 1873, American
Father of Radio
Louis Daguerre18 November 1787, French
Artist
Richard Trevithick13 April 1771, British
Pioneer of steam-powered road & rail transport
David Unaipon28 September 1872, Australian
Preacher
Herman Hollerith29 February 1860, American
Father of modern automatic computation
Werner von Siemens13 December 1816, German
Inventor
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Henry Bessemer19 January 1813, British
Inventor
Charles F. Kettering29 August 1876, American
Inventor, Engineer & Businessman
Cyrus McCormick15 February 1809, American
Inventor of mechanical reaper
Christopher Latham Sholes14 February 1819, American
Inventor of the QWERTY Keyboard
Emile Berliner20 May 1851, American
Inventor
Granville Woods23 April 1856, American
Inventor
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
Orville Wright19 August 1871, American
Co-inventor of First Successful Airplane
Willem Einthoven21 May 1860, Dutch
Inventor of the first practical ECG
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Wilbur Wright16 April 1867, American
Alexander Bain01 October 1811, Scottish
Inventor of Electric Clock
Sarah E. Goode1855 AD, American
Inventor
Gustaf Dalén30 November 1869, Swedish
Inventor of Automatic Regulators, AGA Cookers,
Kirkpatrick Macmillan02 September 1812, Scottish
Inventor of Pedal Bicycle
Francis William Aston01 September 1877, British
Chemist & Physicist
Lawrence Hargrave29 January 1850, Australian
Inventor & Explorer
Edith Clarke10 February 1883, American
Electrical Engineer
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883, American
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Frank Hornby15 May 1863, British
Inventor
Louis Lumière05 October 1864, French
Inventor of Cinematograph
Charles Martin Hall06 December 1863, American
Inventor
Auguste Lumière19 October 1862, French
Inventor of cinematograph
Aurel Stodola10 May 1859, Slovak
Engineer
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
Beulah Louise Henry11 February 1887, American
Lady Edison
Mary Walton1827 AD, American
Inventor
Jozef Murgaš17 February 1864, Slovak
Inventor
Olive Dennis20 November 1885, American
Civil Engineer
Alberto Santos Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Brazilian aviator
Matthias W. Baldwin10 December 1795, American
Inventor
P. G. T. Beauregard28 May 1818, American
Military personnel, Artilleryman, Inventor,
Willis Carrier26 November 1876, American
Engineer, Inventor
Louis Le Prince28 August 1841, French
Inventor, Film director, Cinematographer
L. L. Zamenhof15 December 1859, Polish
Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet,
Alberto Santos-Dumont20 July 1873, Brazilian
Aviator, Inventor, Balloonist
Clarence Birdseye09 December 1886, American
Inventor, Engineer
Max Fleischer19 July 1883, American
Animator
Joseph Swan31 October 1828, British
Chemist, Physicist, Inventor
Josef Hofmann20 January 1876, Polish, American
Pianist
Caresse Crosby20 April 1891, American
Publisher, Writer, Socialite, Poet, Memoirist,
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800, American
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Robert Watson-Watt13 April 1892, British, Scottish
Developer
Theodore Miller Edison10 July 1898, American
Inventor
Peter Carl Fabergé18 May 1846, Russian
jeweller, inventor, artist
Elisha Otis03 August 1811, American
Inventor, Technician
Ferdinand von Zeppelin08 July 1838, German
Inventor
Isaac Singer27 October 1811, American
Actor, Inventor
Auguste Piccard28 January 1884, Swiss, American
Chemist
John Pemberton08 July 1831, American
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
Robert Bosch23 September 1861, Austrian, German
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Artisan
Elisha Gray02 August 1835, American
Engineer
Hugo Gernsback16 August 1884, Luxembourgian, American
Inventor
Otto Lilienthal23 May 1848, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer, Aviator, Inventor
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803, German
Chemist, Scientist, Inventor, University teacher,
Alexander Stepanovich Popov16 March 1859, Russian
Physicist, Inventor, Engineer
John Boyd Dunlop05 February 1840, British
Inventor, Entrepreneur
Elias Howe09 July 1819, American
Inventor, Engineer
Marcel Dassault22 January 1892, French
Politician, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Aerospace
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865, German, American
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Edwin Howard Armstrong18 December 1890, American
Electrical engineer
Hiram Maxim05 February 1840, British, American
Inventor
Wilhelm Maybach09 February 1846, German
Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor