151 World’s Greatest Inventors

Leo Hendrik Baekeland, born in Belgium on 14 November,  1863, was one of the most revolutionary chemists of all time. Soon after his birth, Leo Hendrik Baekeland immigrated to the United States where he studied Chemistry for some years before inventing two of the most useful things for mankind, the Velox photographic paper and Bakelite.

Laszlo Biro (29 September, 1899–24 October, 1985) brought about a revolution in the field of education. He is an inventor of the ball-point pen. Modern technologies are changing the world all around but a few like this are really no less than revolutions. He proposed a new design to the pen and brought many changes

Katharine Burr Blodgett was the first woman who was granted a Ph.D from the prestigious university of Cambridge. She was born on 10 January, 1898 in Schenectady in New York. After completing her master degree in 1920, she was hired as a research scientist by the general electric, where her father was a patent attorney.

Karl Benz (25 November, 1844–4 April, 1929) was born in Germany. When he was only two years old his father met with an accident and was killed in it. He had to lead his childhood in poverty. It was the desire of his mother to impart him good education. Karl Benz was a student of

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born on 16 April, 1907 in Valcourt which is in Quebec in Canada. He was a businessman and an inventor. His most famous invention was a snowmobile. His family was large and they were employed in their small shop in a small town of Valcourt. A few members of his family were

Josephine Cochrane was born on 8 March, 1839 in Ashtabula Country, Ohio. In 1886, she completed the first practical mechanical dishwasher even though a washing machine device was patented already in 1850. She was the very wealthy woman and she organized so many fancy dinner parties. From the beginning she wanted a machine that may

Joseph Aspdin (1778-1855) was a well-known cement manufacturer in Great Britain. On 21 October, 1824 he obtained the patent for Portland cement. It derived its name from the best Portland stone, which was a very prestigious material at that time. This product mainly focused on the architectural precast moulding and stuccoes. A fast setting low

Jonas Edward Salk (28 October, 1914–23 June, 1995) was a well-known American medical researcher who is best known for his discovery of first polio vaccine. In the 1950s, polio was considered to be the most frightening disease in the United States, which seemed to create large annual epidemics that killed millions. After being appointed at

John Vincent Atanasoff was born on 4 October, 1903 in Hamilton, New York. His father was Ivan Atanasov. John Vincent Atanasoff finished his schooling from Mulberry High school in the year 1925 and hence he composed his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. Afterward he unremitted his studies. In the year

John von Neumann (28 December, 1903–8 February, 1957) was primarily a mathematician, and wrote numerous papers on both pure and applied math. He also made important contributions to a number of other fields of inquiry, including quantum physics, economics and computer science. Von Neumann studied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at German and Swiss universities for

John Logie Baird (born 13 August, 1888) is a well-known name in the world of television, for this Scottish engineer was the first one to have invented the world’s first publicly demonstrated television system, as well as the first ever fully electronic colour television tube. The son to a clergyman showed the signs of ingenuity

John Lambert was born on 29 January, 1860 in Ohio. He built the first gasoline-powered single-cylinder vehicle. His gasoline-powered vehicle could reach speed as high as five miles per hour. Despite the fact that his invention was a huge success, the design of the vehicle was turning out to be a major problem. With two wheels

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1734, John Barber was an English inventor and coal master, better known to the world as the inventor of the first gas turbine. He made many discoveries between 1766 and 1792 notable among which was his idea of creating a gas turbine. He took out a patent on that in 1791

Born to the son of Dr. Charles R. Bardeen and Althea Harmer, the name of John Bardeen (23 May, 1908–30 January, 1991) is engraved in golden letters in the history of the Nobel awards. This extremely talented American physicist and electrical engineer is celebrated as the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in