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Inventor
An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly on inventions determined...
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (help·info) (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1833
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1896 (age 63 years)
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1847
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1922 (age 75 years)
Arthur C. Clarke
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 2008 (age 90 years)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) was an inventor, publisher. scientist, and statesman, who is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was a major figure in the Enlightenment, known as a printer, satirist,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1706
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1790 (age 84 years)
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1895
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1983 (age 88 years)
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1904
Date of death:
- Aug 18, 1990 (age 86 years)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-American mathematician and electrical engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1865
Date of death:
- Oct 26, 1923 (age 58 years)
Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1925 (age 84 years)
Dean Kamen
Dean L. Kamen (born 5 April 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father was Jack Kamen, an...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1951 (age 58 years)
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1765
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1825 (age 59 years)
Edwin Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Armstrong was the inventor of frequency modulation (FM) radio.
Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in New York City, New York, in 1890. He...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1890
Date of death:
- Jan 31, 1954 (age 63 years)
George Stephenson
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives, and he is renowned as being the "Father of Railways". The...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1781
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1848 (age 67 years)
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (January 1864 – January 5, 1943), was an American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor whose studies and teaching revolutionized agriculture in the Southern United States. The day and year of his birth are unknown; he...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1864
Date of death:
- Jan 5, 1943 (age 79 years)
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1884
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1967 (age 83 years)
Henry John Heinz
Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was a German-American businessman.
Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz. Both parents had emigrated from Kallstadt, Germany and settled in the Birmingham section of Pittsburgh,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1844
Date of death:
- May 14, 1919 (age 74 years)
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data. He was the founder of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 29, 1860
Date of death:
- Nov 17, 1929 (age 69 years)
John Bardeen
John Bardeen, Ph.D. (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1908
Date of death:
- Jan 30, 1991 (age 82 years)
James Watt
James Watt, FRS, FRSE (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1736
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1819 (age 83 years)
Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz, sometimes spelled as Carl, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and automobile engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1844
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1929 (age 84 years)
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and TV technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1850
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1918 (age 67 years)
Lars Magnus Ericsson
Lars Magnus Ericsson (May 5, 1846 - December 17, 1926) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson).
Lars Magnus was born in Värmskog, Värmland and...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1846
Date of death:
- Dec 17, 1926 (age 80 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Léon Theremin
Léon Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Russian: Лев Сергеевич Термен) (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – 3 November 1993, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1896
Date of death:
- Nov 3, 1993 (age 97 years)
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1856
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 1943 (age 86 years)
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1927
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1990 (age 62 years)
Rube Goldberg
Reuben Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor. Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1883
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 1970 (age 87 years)
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʁɪstjan ˈkaʁl ˈdiːzəl]; March 18, 1858 – last seen alive September 29, 1913) was a European inventor and mechanical engineer, credited for the invention of the diesel engine. It is...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1858
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1913 (age 55 years)
Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship. In 1800 he was commissioned...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1765
Date of death:
- Feb 24, 1815 (age 49 years)
Ron Popeil
Ronald M. Popeil (born May 3, 1935 in New York City; pronounced /poʊˈpiːl/) is an American inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco. He is well known for his appearances in infomercials for the...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1935 (age 74 years)
Robert Moog
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (pronounced /ˈmoʊɡ/ to rhyme with "vogue") (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
A native of New York City, Robert Moog attended the...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1934
Date of death:
- Aug 21, 2005 (age 71 years)
Samuel F. B. Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was the American inventor of a single-wire telegraph system and Morse code and a painter of historic scenes.
Samuel F.B. Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1791
Date of death:
- Apr 2, 1872 (age 80 years)
Steve Wozniak
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1950 (age 59 years)
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1847
Date of death:
- Oct 18, 1931 (age 84 years)
Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, had an ambivalent relationship with the institution of slavery. During his lifetime, Jefferson attempted twice to legislate the emancipation of slaves, one time in 1769 at the Virginia...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1743
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1826 (age 83 years)
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and some consider him to be one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; however, his direct...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1737
Date of death:
- Jun 8, 1809 (age 72 years)
William Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Dickson was born on 3...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1860
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1935 (age 75 years)
William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1989 (age 79 years)
Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902–October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1902
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 1987 (age 85 years)
William Seward Burroughs I
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
William Seward Burroughs was a son of a mechanic, and he worked with machines while growing up. While he was still a small boy,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1857
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 1898 (age 41 years)
Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first fully electronic television system, including the first working electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), and for...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1906
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 1971 (age 64 years)
Edwin Beard Budding
Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), an engineer from Stroud, England, was the English inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and adjustable spanner.
Budding got the idea of the lawnmower after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill which used a cutting...
Date of birth:
- 1795
Date of death:
- 1846 (age 51 years)
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman sleeping car, and for violently suppressing striking workers in the company town he created, Pullman ...
Date of birth:
- Mar 3, 1831
Date of death:
- Oct 19, 1897 (age 66 years)
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer (January 19, 1813 – March 15, 1898) was an English engineer and inventor. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.
Henry Bessemer's father, Anthony, was born in London,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1813
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1898 (age 85 years)
Rudolf Hell
Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 – March 11, 2002) was a German inventor. He was born in Eggmühl, Germany.
From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. Max Dieckmann, with whom...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1901
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 2002 (age 100 years)
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton FRS (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), cousin of Sir Douglas Galton, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1822
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1911 (age 88 years)
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse, Jr (October 6, 1846–March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early...
Date of birth:
- Oct 6, 1846
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 1914 (age 67 years)
James Gosling
James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of...
Date of birth:
- May 19, 1955 (age 54 years)
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 7, 1805 – June 13, 1871) was a French magician. He is widely considered the father of the modern style of conjuring.
Robert-Houdin was born Jean Eugène Robert in Blois, France on 7 December 1805--a day after his...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1805
Date of death:
- Jun 13, 1871 (age 65 years)
Louis Gathmann
Louis Gathmann (August 11, 1843–1917), engineer and an inventor, started his career designing equipment for mills and farms; he is notable for holding numerous patents. By the 1880s, Gathmann's patents were in such demand that he had to form a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1843
Date of death:
- 1917 (age 73 years)
Ernst Werner von Siemens
Ernst Werner von Siemens (known as Werner von Siemens) (13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemens' name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens.
Werner Siemens was born in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 13, 1816
Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1892 (age 76 years)
Charles Macintosh
Charles Macintosh (29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843) was a British chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics. The Mackintosh raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named for him.
Macintosh was born in Glasgow, where he was first employed...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1766
Date of death:
- Jul 25, 1843 (age 76 years)
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (pronounced piːˈjɛər hɛnˈri mʌˈri ˈʃeɪfɜr (help·info); August 14, 1910 – August 19, 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 14, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1995 (age 85 years)
Clive Sinclair
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (born 30 July 1940) is a British entrepreneur and inventor of the slim-line electronic pocket calculator in 1972 (Sinclair Executive) and the ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, among...
Date of birth:
- Jul 30, 1940 (age 69 years)
George Eastman
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1854
Date of death:
- Mar 14, 1932 (age 77 years)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (also romanized Mendeleyev or Mendeleef; Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев listen (help·info)) (8 February [O.S. 27 January] 1834 – 2 February [O.S. 20 January] 1907), was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1834
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1907 (age 73 years)
Louis Braille
Louis Braille (English pronunciation: /ˈbreɪl/; French: [bʁɑj]) (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1809
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1852 (age 43 years)
Pierre de Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, and revolutionary (both French and American). He was best known, however, for his theatrical...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1732
Date of death:
- May 18, 1799 (age 67 years)
Piet Hein
Piet Hein (December 16, 1905–April 17, 1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks (Danish:...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1905
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1996 (age 90 years)
John Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (January 8, 1831–August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran, an American druggist, and perhaps was best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola, which in his lifetime was used only for medical purposes.
Though born in nearby...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1831
Date of death:
- Aug 16, 1888 (age 57 years)
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.
Although it is difficult to verify details of Benjamin Banneker's family history, it appears that he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1731
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1806 (age 74 years)
