151 World’s Greatest Inventors

Cai Lun (50 AD–121 AD) was the Chinese eunuch and he was the inventor of the paper and paper making process even though paper was existed in China before the time of Cai Lun. He took the improvements and consistency of paper making by accumulating necessary new materials into its production. Cai Lun was born […]

Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was born on 1572 at Alkmaar in Holland and died on 7 November, 1633. But in this period of time, he did so many things. He was the Dutch builder who made the first navigable submarine in 1620. He was an innovator who contributed the growth of measurements and control systems, optics

Charles Mackintosh (29 December, 1766–25 July, 1843) was the inventor of the waterproof raincoat made from a fabric that was rubberized. It was in 1824 that it was first sold with an abbreviated ‘mack’ or ‘mac’ on it.  Even the raincoat was named after Charles Macintosh, who was a Scottish. Material made from laminated rubber

Seattle born Chester Carlson (8 February, 1906–19 September, 1968) excelled in two fields of Electrophotography and Xerography. Since early childhood, he started printing and duplication newspapers and did not like the traditional methods of duplicating writing when he was working in a printing press. In New York, he was made patent attorney. Chester Carlson saw

Clarence Birdseye (9 December, 1886–7 October, 1956) an American naturalist, is the originator of the science behind frozen foods. His interest in the food industry began during 1912-1915 while he was conducting a field study in Labrador. Birdseye came up with the idea to freeze seafood at a very low temperature, when he found that seafood

Corradino D’Ascanio was born on 1 February, 1891 at Popoli in Pescara. He was an Italian aeronautical engineer. He designed the first innovation helicopter for the Agusta. The first motor scooter was also designed by him for Ferdinando Innocent. Ferdinando Innocent gave him responsibility to design the scooter that was easy to drive for both

Charles Darwin is regarded as a distinguished figure in history and was known for his exceptional scientific discoveries. Darwin was born in 12th February, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. He was deeply interested in the subject of taxonomy, which implied the classification of living things and marine surroundings. The five-year voyage throughout the globe on a

To call the great Charles Babbage (26 December, 1791–18 October, 1871) ‘Father of the Computer’ would not be really justified. He was a great English born philosopher, mathematician, mechanical engineer and an inventor who changed the way people used to compute things by the 19th century. His first mechanical computer was a simple device, which

The eminent Indian scientist C.V. Raman was born 7 November, 1888, who received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his work, scattering of light, also known as ‘Raman effect’. Once when he was measuring the angle of prism with the help of Spectrometer, he observed some diffraction bands. This observation fired his imagination. He

Bartolomeo Cristofori di Franceso (4 May, 1655–27 January, 1731) was known as the inventor of the very famous musical instrument known as piano. He was born in Padua in the republic of Venice. He was the Italian maker. Bartolomeo was appointed as the musical technician for Prince Ferdinando de Medici. He was the great innovator

Bruno Abakanowicz (6 October, 1852–29 August, 1900) was a mathematician, a great inventor and, later, an electrical engineer. He was very well known for the integrator that was invented in 1880. In his other patents of works, the electrical bell is known after he had worked on it and invented the most newly designed. He

Bi Sheng (990–1051) had been the discoverer of the First recog-nized movable typetechnology. His system was built of Chinese porcelain. Throughout the dominate of the Chingli he built the movable type. His technique was: he chose sticky clay and cut in them characters which was as thinly as the boundary of a surface of coins. Every character shaped as

Barbara Askins is credited with the invention of a new and better method of developing films. She was a teacher when she started her career. After completing her education, she went to work for NASA where she was given the task of inventing a way to improve astronomical photos taken from space. Her invention engrossed

Arnold O. Beckman was born on 18 May, 1900 in the U.S. He got his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in the year 1922 in Chemical Engineering. He also earned his master’s degree in the year 1923 in Physical Chemistry from there. He got selected in the Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity in

Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on 6 August, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before entering St. Mary’s Medical School, London University. He qualified with distinction