Sawan’s 151 World’s Greatest Inventors collection is a source of inspiration for children, so we’ve put together our very own list of the Top inventors of all time.😍📚
Zhores Alferov (born 15 March, 1930) was a physicist, academician and a known inventor of heterotransistor. He was also a Nobel prize winner in the year 2000 for Physics. His inventions contributed to the creation of heterostructure of physics devices and electronics circuits. He was the most influential member as well in the Russian Federation. …
Willis Carrier was an American inventor. He worked hard in his life. He was a mechanical engineer who worked to control and regulate the temperature. Willis Carrier was born on 26 November, 1876 in America. By the start of the 20th century, he completed his mechanical engineering. He invented the air conditioner. It was a …
William Potts (1883–1947) was born in Michigan and served as a Detroit Police officer from the age of 17. He is credited to invent a three-way traffic light in 1920. Officially, he did not get the patent for his invention but since the legal battle started between the manufacturers of the traffic light, The United …
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born on 3 August, 1860. He was a French born Scot inventor who designed an early motion picture camera under the supervision of Thomas Edison. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was an inventor, director, producer, cinematographer and actor. Dickson invented the first realistic celluloid film for this application (Kinetoscope) and determined …
William Harvey (1 April, 1578–3 June, 1657) was a great English physician who pioneered the complete description of the concept of systemic circulation–detailed properties of the blood that is being pumped by the heart to the entire body. History states that Harvey was a humorous yet a very precise man who would often be insomniac …
William George Armstrong (26 November, 1810–27 December, 1900) was basically a solicitor who was genuinely interested in engineering. Generally in his spare time, he was indulged in the activities of inventing little things which made the daily work easy. During one of his fishing visits he was thrilled by the idea that the energy and …
William Friese-Greene was born on 7 September, 1855 in Bristol, England. He was a British portrait photographer and creative inventor. He is mainly known as a initiator in the field of motion pictures and is recognized by some as the inventor of cinematography. On 21 June 1889, Friese-Greene patented his ‘chronophotographic’ camera. It was actually …
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a philosopher and theoretical physicist from Germany who was born on 5 December, 1901. He was born to a school teacher, Kaspar Earnesta August Heisenberg, in the secondary section at Wurzburg located in Germany. The formulation of quantum mechanics made by Werner Karl Heisenberg in 1925 changed the understanding of matrices. …
Wallace Hume Carothers (27 April, 1896–29 April, 1937) made his mark in Organic Chemistry after completing Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He later joined Harvard as the instructor and was offered a fund research by the DUPont Fundamental research Laboratory. In 1934, Wallace Carothers and his team developed the first man-made organic …
Vladimir Bekhterev (24 January, 1857–24 December, 1927) was a Russian brain doctor and also the Father of objective psychological science. He is known for discovering the function of the hippocampus within memory and Bekhterev’s illness. Furthermore, he is also known for his contest with Ivan Pavlov concerning the conditioned reflexes study. Vladimir Bekhterev was born in a village named Sorali in …
Vitally Abalakov (13 January, 1906–26 May, 1986) was a great soviet mountaineer and also an inventor of ice protecting device. This device is named V-thread by taking the first letter of his inventor. He was a great Soviet climber too. He worked really hard on the method of protecting an individual while climbing icy mountains. …
Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine, born in 1888 was a revolutionary Russian-born French painter, inventor and an avant-garde artist. Apart from his excellence in Art, Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine is also known as the inventor of the Optophonic Piano, pointillist or dynamic military camouflage. The first among these was a synaesthetic instrument invented by him in 1924 that …
Vasily Andreyev (1861–1918) was a famous Russian musician with responsible modern and tradition folk instruments. He knew how to play them. Moreover in this field, he is known as a Father of folk musicians. He had done his academic on folk instruments in Europe. He also knew how to play orchestra which includes the string …
Ulugh Beg (1394–27 October, 1449) was a Timurid astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His name also appears as Ulug Bey, (bey in Turkish means ‘chieftain’), Ulugh Bek and Ulug Bek. The grandson of the conqueror Timur the Lame (1336–1405) and the oldest son of Shah Rukh, both of whom came from the Turkic Barlas tribe of …
Sir Timothy John, known by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. He is also recognized as TimBL. He is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989 he prepared a plan for an information management system. On 25 December, 1990, through the help …
Thomas Saint, a skilled craftsman in cabinetry, patented a design of the sewing machine in the year 1790. He was the first to design it but this invention was not advertised by him. The machine was initially used for sewing canvas and leather materials only. There wasn’t evidence available for the product since Saint had …
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist and science author. He was born on 25 September, 1866, at Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. Since childhood he had shown an immense interest in natural history. In 1890, he completed his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and researched embryology during his term at Bryn Mawr. Morgan left an important …
Thomas Alva Edison (11 February, 1847–18 October, 1931) an American school dropout, was a genius and a businessman by profession. His list of inventions includes the Phonograph, the first commercial incandescent light, carbon microphone and the light bulb. He found his own company, called as the Edison Electric Light Company. He started off as a …
Stephen Hawking (born 8 January, 1942) is a theoretical physicist and former Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is also the celebrated author of the book, ‘A Brief History of Time’, an international bestseller for a record-breaking 237 weeks. He is now Director of Research at the Institute for Theoretical Cosmology at …
Sir Joseph Lister (5 April, 1827–10 February, 1912) was a British surgeon who is considered as the Father of antiseptic surgery. He was the one to propel the idea of sterile surgery as this would help to decrease the possibility of post-operative infection. He successfully used Carbolic acid to sterilise wounds and surgical instruments. In …
Sir John Harington was born on 4 August 1561, in Kelston. He was a courtier, writer and master of art. Besides this, he is generally known as the inventor of the flush toilet. He became a well-known associate of Queen Elizabeth-I’s court, and soon included himself in dear ones of her. But due to his …
Sir Isaac Newton was considered as one of the most influential English mathematicians and physicists who ever lived. He was born on 25 December, 1642 in Lincolnshire, England. When people think about Isaac Newton, they relate him to a person sitting under an apple tree and watching an apple falling on the ground. Interestingly, this incident …
Sir Frederick William Herschel was born on 15 November, 1738 in Hanover, Germany. He was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert and composer. Soon, he became famous for his innovation of the planet Uranus, by the side of two of its major moons that were Titania and Oberon. He also exposed two moons of Saturn …
Seth Boyden (1788–1870) was an American Inventor. He invented process for making patent leather in 1819 and discovered malleable iron in 1826, when he was 32 years old. He built his own steamboat. Boyden’s efforts in his invention resulted in the production of glossy leather that quickly caught on as a perfect formal dress. In …
Satyendra Nath Bose was born on 1 January, 1894 and contributed his inventions to the world till his death on 4 February, 1974. He is known for his research on quantum mechanics in 1920s. He joined Presidency College and came in contact with teachers like Jagdish Chandra Bose. He got inspirations from them and started …
Sam Born was an American businessman but born in Russia. He was a candy maker and also contributed to the invention field. In 1916, Sam Born was awarded with ‘Key to the City’ in San Francisco. This award was for the invention of inserting sticks into lollipops. Hence, he became popular for inventing lollipop machines. …
Rudolf Diesel (18 March, 1858–29 September, 1913) who revolutionized the field of automobile by manufacturing the diesel engine. Educated at Munich polytechnic, he started his career as a refrigerator engineer. Persuaded by his love for engines, he designed many engines. In 1894, he filed patent application for the internal combustion engine, later to be named …
Rostislav Alexeyev (18 December, 1916–9 February, 1980) was famous for his working in high-speed ships and his contributions on designing. He was a great designer and an inventor of Ekranoplans. He invented it and made the world’s first plane that makes the shipbuilding industry to work while using ground effect with the craft on side. …
Roger Bacon (1214–1294) was an English philosopher hailing from France who played a significant role in the shaping of the medieval experimental science. Born into a wealthy family, Bacon had received an extensive training in mathematics, optics, astronomy, alchemy, along with a profound knowledge in the classical languages. Initially, a lecturer on Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian treatises, Bacon …
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July, 1920–16 April, 1958) a British biophysicist is best known for her contribution to the field of the understanding of molecular structure of RNA, viruses, DNA, coal and graphite. While all her works are important for science, her contribution towards DNA structure helped many scientists understand and explain the genetic process …
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