151 World’s Greatest Inventors

Edwin Howard Armstrong is also known as the ‘Father of FM’. He also invented regenerative circuit. Born on 18 December, 1890, he grew up in Yonkers, New York. Edwin was only eleven when the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission was made. This made Armstrong interested in studying radio and building homemade wireless equipment. He invented frequency- […]

Known as the ‘Father of Immunology’, Edward Jenner (17 May, 1749–26 January, 1823) was an English scientist. He is known for the invention of smallpox vaccine. Vaccination was a regular exercise but it could not prevent the disease from occurring. Edward Jenner decided to just add the element of prevention from occurring (Immunity) to the

Edouard Branly (23 October, 1844–24 March, 1940) was a French inventor, physicist and also a professor at the Institute Catholique de Paris. He is recognized for his early interest in wireless telegraph and his discovery of the Branly Cohere around 1890 which gave him a biggest success. He completed his higher education from Ecole Normale

Earl W. Bascom was an American painter who was born on 19 June, 1906. His father was John W. Bascom who was the Deputy Sheriff in Utha. Earl had multihued family backdrop having a group nationalities and mores such as Quaker, Basque and Huguenot. He completed his graduation from the Brigham Young University. Boscom was

Ernest Beaux was born on 8 December, 1881 in Moscow. He was well known as a French and Russian perfumer. His grandfather was Jean-Joseph Beaux who was  related to Napoleon’s army as a soldier. Edouard Beaux was the father of Ernest Beaux. Edouardovich was Ernest’s older brother who was involved to A. Rallet & Co.

Emil Fischer (9 October, 1852–15 July, 1919) was a German chemist who discovered the phenylhydranzine and the Fischer Esterification. He also carried the synthesis of tea, coffee, caffeine and cocoa. He proved the relation between fructose and glucose. His significant research on sugar included the synthesis of glucosides. He also found out methods to separate

Emile Berliner was born on 20 May, 1851, in Germany. Although he was born in Germany yet he was an American inventor. He is known for developing the disc record gramophone that is known phonograph in American English. In 1895 he founded Berliner Gramophone Company in the various cities  listed as below: Gramophone Company in

In 1939, physicist Edward Teller (5 January, 1908–9 September, 2003) was part of the group of scientists that invented the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. He was the co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where together with Ernest Lawrence, Luis Alvarez and others he invented the hydrogen bomb in 1951. He received

An American pharmacologist and biochemist. Dr. Earl W. Sutherland (19 November, 1915–9 March, 1974) received Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1971. He was a Professor of Physiology at the Vanderbilt University in the U.S.A. He started his research while studying how the hormone epinephrine signals cells to release more sugar into the blood so that an organism

The Russian scholar Dmitri Mendeleev (8 February, 1834–2 February, 1907) has made notable contributions to the fields of Physics and Chemistry. This great chemist born in Siberia is remembered for his Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. He carried out vital research in the fields of geology, meteorology, hydrodynamics, etc. He was one of the pioneers

Aprominent American inventor, doctor and scientist, David Alter was born in Westmoreland county of Pennsylvania on 3 December, 1807. He did his graduation from the Reformed Medical School in New York City and started his carrier as a physician and scientist in Elderton, Pennsylvania, in the 1830s. He had German and Swiss ancestry. He invented the electric telegraph, one year before the popular

A British electrical engineer, Dr. Dennis Gabor worked as a scientist in the U.S.A. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1900. He studied electrical engineering in Budapest and completed his Ph.D in engineering from Berlin.  Dr. Gabor won the 1971 Nobel prize award for Physics. He was the 16th Briton to have

Donat Banki, better known as the Hungarian engineer who invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, was born on 6 June 1859, in a village called Bakonybank. After graduating from the Budapest University of Technology with Economics, Donat Banki worked as an engineer. In collaboration with Janos Csonka, Donat Banki invented the carburetor in 1893.

Douglas Carl Engelbart was born on 30 January, 1925, in Portland, USA. He is an American inventor of the computer mouse and the development of hypertext, networked computers and precursors to graphical user interface (GUI). From the beginning he was working on the human computer interaction  devices. That’s why the result came out in the

Charles Franklin Kettering (29 August, 1876–25 November, 1958) is inventor of the electrical ignition system. The electric driven generator is also the holder of 186 different patents. Kettering graduated from Ohio State University as an engineer and joined the National Cash Register Company; in 1909, he left NCR and set up the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, with