Famous Inventors
Discover the men and women behind some of the most famous inventions and innovations of history. Research almost any famous historical or current inventor with these biographies, A-to-Z lists, photo galleries, and timelines.
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Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian American Computer Pioneer
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Biography of Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, Noted Italian Mathematician
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Biography of Garrett Morgan, Inventor of the Gas Mask
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Biography of Mark Dean, Computer Pioneer
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Biography of Fe del Mundo, Noted Filipino Pediatrician
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Biography of Edmund Cartwright, English Inventor
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Biography of Roberto del Rosario, Inventor of a Karaoke Machine
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Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, Inventor, Statesman
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Biography of Bette Nesmith Graham, Inventor of Liquid Paper
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Biography of Eduardo Quisumbing, Famed Filipino Botanist
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Biography of Henry Ford, American Industrialist and Inventor
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Biography of Janet Emerson Bashen, American Inventor
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Biography of Samuel F.B. Morse, Inventor of the Telegraph
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Biography of Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone
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Biography of Louis Pasteur, French Biologist and Chemist
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Biography of Benjamin Banneker, Author and Naturalist
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Biography of Konrad Zuse, Inventor and Programmer of Early Computers
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Biography of Percy Julian, Inventor of Improved Synthesized Cortisone
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Biography of Nathaniel Alexander, Inventor of a Folding Chair
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Biography of Elijah McCoy, American Inventor
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Biography of James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball
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Biography of Thomas Jennings, First African American Patent Holder
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Biography of John Lee Love, Portable Pencil Sharpener Inventor
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Biography of Mary Anderson, Inventor of the Windshield Wiper
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Biography of Thomas Adams, American Inventor
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Biography of Mark Zuckerberg, Creator of Facebook
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Biography of George Pullman, Inventor of the Railroad Sleeping Car
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Biography of Madam C.J. Walker, American Entrepreneur and Beauty Mogul
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Biography of Charles Babbage, Mathematician and Computer Pioneer
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Biography of Alfred Nobel, Inventor of Dynamite
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Biography of Patricia Bath, American Doctor and Inventor
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Biography of Vladimir Zworykin, Father of the Television
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Biography of Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer Co-Founder
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Biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the Father of Motion Pictures
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Biography of Blaise Pascal, 17th Century Inventor of the Calculator
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Biography of Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Inventor and Electrical Engineer
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Biography of Max Born, Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist
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Biography of Isaac Newton, Mathematician and Scientist
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Biography of Thomas Newcomen, Inventor of the Steam Engine
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Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Mathematical Genius
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Biography of Edwin Howard Armstrong, Inventor of FM Radio
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Biography of Jonas Salk: Inventor of the Polio Vaccine
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Leonhard Euler, Mathematician: His Life and Work
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Biography of Jack Johnson, American Boxing Champion
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Biography of Ernest Lawrence, Inventor of the Cyclotron
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History's 15 Most Famous Inventors
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Biography of Johannes Gutenberg, German Inventor of the Printing Press
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Biography of Galileo Galilei, Renaissance Philosopher and Inventor
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Elias Howe: Inventor of the Lock Stitch Sewing Machine
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George Crum, Inventor of the Potato Chip
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The Invention of the Safety Pin
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Wilhelm Reich and the Orgone Accumulator
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Who Invented Auto-Tune?
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The History of the Digital Camera
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Thomas Savery and the Beginning of the Steam Engine
Joseph Winters and the Fire Escape Ladder
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The Atanasoff-Berry Computer: The First Electronic Computer
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Biography of George Washington Carver, Discovered 300 Uses for Peanuts
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Top List of Mexican Inventors
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Grace Murray Hopper: The Younger Years
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James Clerk Maxwell, Master of Electromagnetism