Famous Discoverers - page 2

The Most Famous Discoverers
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Thomas Newcomen	January 1, 1664	British	Thomas Newcomen was a British inventor who developed the world’s first steam engine
Christopher Latham Sholes	February 14, 1819	American	Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor
Edmund Cartwright	April 24, 1743	British	Edmund Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of power loom
Cornelis Drebbel	1572	Dutch	Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch builder best remembered as the inventor of world’s first navigable submarine
Adolphe Sax	November 6, 1814	Belgian	Adolphe Sax was the inventor of Saxophone
Louis Lumière	October 5, 1864	French	Louis Lumière and his brother Auguste were French inventors who made the world’s first true motion picture
Mary Walton	1827	American	Mary Walton was a 19th century American inventor who devised methods for minimising the effects of pollution
Kirkpatrick Macmillan	September 2, 1812	Scottish	Kirkpatrick Macmillan was a Scottish blacksmith who invented the modern bicycle
Philo Farnsworth	August 19, 1906	American	Philo Farnsworth was an inventor who invented the fully functional all-electronic TV
Louis Braille	January 4, 1809	French	Louis Braille was a French educationist and inventor who devised a system of reading and writing for use by the blind