Ranked among the most important of industrial designers. They are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing, and the photographic arts.
Invented dry, transparent, and flexible photographic film
Behind the history of the ENIAC computer.
Doc Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography.
All of Thomas Edison's major inventions. Also -
The Life of Thomas Edison,
Biography of Thomas Edison,
An Animated Luncheon
Created JavaScript.
Built the Eiffel Tower for the Paris World's Fair of 1889, which honored the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution.
Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. Einstein's theories lead to the invention of nuclear power and the atomic bomb.
Invented the leukemia fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine, drugs that facilitated kidney transplants and drugs for the treatment of cancer.
African American inventor - view his three U.S. patents.
In 1989, Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize for inventing software for supercomputers.
Received a patent for Tagamet - inhibits the production of stomach acid.
Invented the computer mouse and the first GUI software before Microsoft or Apple.
The history of the propelling steam vessels.
Pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
Invented the outboard motor.
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