methods on how to do things may also be called an inventor. Inventors can receive a patent. Many inventors make small changes to old inventions. For example...

A patent gives an inventor the right to stop other people making or using their invention. If someone makes or uses that invention without being allowed...

Edison (ED-e-son)(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, entrepreneur and businessman. He developed many devices in the fields...

13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968. This...

Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor. He is known as the inventor of the cotton gin, an important invention in the Industrial...

Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who invented the steamboat. Fulton county (county in the state of Georgia)...

Fernando Mazariegos Anleu (21 March 1938 – 2 June 2018), was a Guatemalan inventor. He was known for the creation of the drinking water filter called "Ecofilter"...

the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer. The Nobel Prize in...

Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer. He was a pioneer of long-distance radio transmission...

16th-century castle. Famous people from Ambronay include Louis Tholon, inventor of the first direct vision spectroscope. Wikimedia Commons has media related...

Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844 - October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American inventor of African-American descent who is best known for inventing lubrication...

Carl "Doug" Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American inventor. Engelbart was known for inventing the computer mouse in 1964. Engelbart...

Elias Howe (July 9, 1819 – October 3, 1867) was an American inventor. Elias Howe was the inventor of the first American-patented sewing machine. This short...

Hiroshi; born September 11, 1960) is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor. His work focused on semiconductor technology. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize...

This article is about the inventor. For other uses see the president. George Washington Carver (c. January 1860 – January 5, 1943) was an American educator...

(July 9, 1894 – September 8, 1970) was an American engineer and inventor. He was the inventor the microwave oven. Spencer was born in Maine. He invented the...

teacher, scientist, and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company. In 1876, Bell was the first inventor to patent the telephone, and...

Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs. He won the 1956 Nobel...

Adler (December 4, 1913 – February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. He was known for creating wireless remote control...

jazz musician. He was best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick. Emmett Chapman, musician and inventor of the Chapman Stick, dies at 85 Biographical...

(May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. He was the co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics...

Castile Christopher Columbus, Italian sailor Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer Ferdinand II of Aragon...

history of basketball. It was dedicated to Canadian-American physician and inventor of the sport James Naismith, it was opened and inducted its first class...

(16 August 1845 – 13 July 1921) was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on color photography. Gabriel...

2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine The human touch of chemistry. Otto Hahn - the inventor of atom splitting Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine Visit Berlin...

in localized use until 1923. April 5 – Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and writer (d. 1915) July 10 – Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist...

This is a list of Italian inventors: Archimedes Giovanni Battista Amici Flavio Baracchini Eugenio Barsanti Robert Ludvigovich Bartini Enrico Bernardi...

Appert (Châlons-en-Champagne 1749 - Massy 1841) was a French inventor. He was the inventor of airtight food preservation. Appert-Aina Archived 2011-09-04...

October 3, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-21. "Robert Metcalfe, Inventor Profile". National Inventors Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2008-01-04....

is a Japanese chemist. He is a professor at Meijo University. He is the inventor of lithium-ion battery (LIB) often used in cellular phones and notebook...

May 1947) is a British inventor, Industrial Design engineer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless...

Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to go around the world. Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter...

neither man rejected the title of co-inventor. Lécuyer, p. 129 Hays, Constance L. (June 4, 1990). "An Inventor of the Microchip, Robert N. Noyce, Dies...

Trevor Graham Baylis (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor. He was best known for the wind-up radio. He invented it in response to the need...

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor. He was the first person to make a telegraph with only one wire, and also...

evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, the inventor of telephone Alexander Graham Bell, and the inventor of television technology John Logie Baird, who...

Forrest M. Bird (June 9, 1921 – August 2, 2015) is an American aviator, inventor and biomedical engineer. He was best known for having created some of the...

Turkey) during the Islamic Golden Age. He was simultaneously a scholar, an inventor, a mechanical engineer, an artisan, an artist, and a mathematician. Just...

Robert Ovshinsky (November 24, 1922 – October 17, 2012) was an American inventor and scientist. He had well over 400 patents over fifty years. Most of these...

Macintosh and similar spellings is a surname: Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor) Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish architect and designer) Donald McIntosh...

Marquis de Sade sentenced to death. May 20-Sir William Congreve, English inventor. August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg...

OMRI, OMCA (born 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for...

Canton. Fulton County was founded in 1823 and named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. "QuickFacts: Fulton County, Illinois". United States...

January 19, 2020) was an Austrian-born Australian-American scientist, inventor, and musician. He was best known for his innovations and discoveries in...

was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the internal combustion engine and petrol-powered automobile, and together...

Silver III (February 6, 1941 – May 8, 2021) was an American chemist and inventor. He co-invented Post-it Notes with Arthur Fry. Silver died at his home...

and businessman. He was born in Vourvoura, Greece. He was known as the inventor of Hawaiian pizza. With his brothers Elias and Nikitas, Panopoulos owned...

zoologist. Aviva Corcovado (voiced by Athena Karkenis) is a Latino-American inventor. Koki (voiced by Heather Bambrick and Sabyn Rock) is an African-American...

composer (d. 1833) February 12 – Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883) February 21 Carl Czerny, Austrian composer...

Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924– May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. On October 6, 2009, he won the 2009 Nobel...