Famous Inventors - page 2

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

Johannes Gutenberg was a famous German who invented the movable type printing machine thus making mass printing a reality

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Guglielmo Marconi was the Nobel Prize winning Italian engineer who is credited with the invention of wireless telegraphy

Frank Hornby was a renowned inventor and entrepreneur who founded the popular brand of toys like Meccano and Dinky Toys

Thomas Newcomen was a British inventor who developed the world’s first steam engine

Henry Bessemer was a renowned English inventor who discovered the Bessemer process of steel-making

Emile Berliner was a renowned American inventor with many inventions to his credit; which include the gramophone

Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was a Dutch builder best remembered as the inventor of world’s first navigable submarine

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Edmund Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of power loom

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British scientist best known for inventing the salted paper and calotype processes

Sir Richard Arkwright was an 18th century inventor known as 'the Father of the Industrial Revolution'