Famous Inventors

The Most Famous Inventors
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Thomas Newcomen	January 1, 1664	British	Thomas Newcomen was a British inventor who developed the world’s first steam engine
Erno Rubik	July 13, 1944	Hungarian	The famous inventor and educationist, Erno Rubik is known world-wide for his invention the ‘Rubik’s Cube’
James Dyson	May 2, 1947	British	Sir James Dyson is a British inventor who invented the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner
Howard Hughes	December 24, 1905	American	Howard Hughes was an American aviator, business tycoon, philanthropist and also a film maker
Christopher Latham Sholes	February 14, 1819	American	Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor
Leo Baekeland	November 14, 1863	Belgian, American	Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist well-known for his discovery of photographic paper Velox and polymeric plastic Bakelite.
Edmund Cartwright	April 24, 1743	British	Edmund Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of power loom
Charles Lindbergh	February 4, 1902	American	Charles Lindbergh was an award winning American aviator, inventor and author
Cornelis Drebbel	1572	Dutch	Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch builder best remembered as the inventor of world’s first navigable submarine
George Washington Carver	January 1, 1864	American	George Washington Carver was an American scientist and inventor

Philo Farnsworth was an inventor who invented the fully functional all-electronic TV

Christopher Latham Sholes was an American inventor

Lawrence Hargrave was an Australian engineer, aviation pioneer, inventor, explorer, and astronomer

Mary Walton was a 19th century American inventor who devised methods for minimising the effects of pollution

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Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German physicist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909

Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist well-known for his discovery of photographic paper Velox and polymeric plastic Bakelite.

Louis Braille was a French educationist and inventor who devised a system of reading and writing for use by the blind

Louis Lumière and his brother Auguste were French inventors who made the world’s first true motion picture

Peter Cooper was an American industrialist and inventor who built the first steam locomotive in the U.S

Werner von Siemens was a German inventor who established ‘Siemens’ one of the largest telecommunications company in Europe