151 World’s Greatest Inventors

John Adam Presper, was born on April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an American electrical engineer and one of the most computer founders. In the company of John Mauchly he made up the first general-purpose electronic digital computer that is known as ENIAC. John Adam Presper positioned second in the country on the […]

Johannes Kepler (27 December, 1571–15 November, 1630) was a prominent German astronomer, mathematician as well as a brilliant astrologer. Kepler had contributed to a great degree in the scientific revolution during the 17th century. He is very famous for the eponymous laws of planetary motion, which had been later codified by many astronomers. His exceptional

Johannes Gutenberg was born 1398, in Mainz, Germany. He is credited with the invention of the printing press. His father worked at the Mainz Mint and Johann used to go with him. He learnt tips from jewellers and goldsmiths about how to shape or how to make metal. These tips would later on in life help

Jean Piaget was born on 9 August, 1896 in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Jean Piaget was a precocious child, having published his first article on an albino sparrow at the age of 11. This brief study is considered the beginning of his brilliant scientific career. On Saturday, Jean Piaget worked for free at the Natural History Museum.

Jerome ‘Jerry’ Hal Lemelson (18 July, 1923–1 October, 1997) is one of the most prolific inventors of all times. The 605 patents against his name substantiate this fact. Jerry had a passion towards innovation from his childhood. The invention of tongue depressor by him in his childhood is a proof of the fact. Being a

James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago on 6 April, 1928, as the only son of James D. Watson, a businessman, and Jean Mitchell. His father’s ancestors were originally of English descent and had lived in the midwest for several generations. In 1947, he received a B.Sc. degree in Zoology. During these years his boyhood

James Naismith (6 November, 1861–28 November, 1939) is called the ‘Father of the sport of basketball’. He was a Canadian physical instructor and invented the sport in the year 1891. Naismith was born in Ontario and had his education at Presbyterian College and McGill University, Montreal. After his education, he served as the physical instructor

A Scottish mathematician and physicist, James Clerk Maxwell (13 June, 1831–5 November, 1879) is well known for inventing the Electromagnetic theory. He went to the Edinburg University where he discovered Photoelasticty before moving to the University of Cambridge. There, he worked under William Hopkins who was a popular mathematician and geologist in that era. His

Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose was well known for the discovery of Crescograph which is the first device to measure growth in plants. Jagdish Chandra Bose was born on 30 November, 1858 in Bikarampur, near Dhaka district in Bangladesh. He was an archaeologist, botanist, biologist, science-writer and physicist. He was also known as the ‘Father of

J Stuart Blackton (5 January, 1875–13 August, 1941) was the famous film producer of the silent era of Anglo-Americans. He was one of the first filmmakers who used the techniques like stop motion and some animations on the pictures. He is known by the name of the Father of American in the field of animations.

Hubert Cecil Booth, born in Gloucester on 4 July, 1871, was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who in 1901 invented the vacuum cleaner. This was the very same year that he formed a consultancy for engineering. In the year 1903, he founded the British Vacuum Cleaner Company.  Compressed air was used to clean

Howard Aiken was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on 8 March, 1900. During his schooling period he began work as a switchboard operator. After the completion of high school in 1918, he received his bachelor is degree from University of Wisconsin. In 1923, he became a professor at the University of Miami. He received his

Hermann Anschutz-Kaempfe (3 October, 1872–16 May, 1931) was a known German scientist plus inventor of submarine gyrocompasses. He worked really hard in the field of high sea navigations. He mainly focused to keep the reliability of the sea level by measuring the height and depth through his invention of the devices named gyrocompasses. Hermann was

Hargobind Khorana (9 January, 1922–9 November, 2011) was an Indian by birth and an American by domicile. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine with two others in 1968. He was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He did his M.Sc. in Chemistry from Punjab University and got a Doctorate in the subject from

Gregor Johann Mendel (20 July, 1822–6 January, 1884) was a scientist from Austria who achieved the title of being the founder of genetics science. Mendel propagated that there is a particular kind of pattern that is followed by the pea plants by which they get their inherent characteristics. Later this theory came to be known