Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

male, deceased (1923)
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865-October 26, 1923) was an American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer. He fostered the development of...
William Kemmler

William Kemmler

male, deceased (1890)
William Kemmler (May 9, 1860 - August 6, 1890) of Buffalo, New York was the first person to be executed via electric chair. He had murdered Tillie...
Galileo Ferraris

Galileo Ferraris

male, deceased (1897)
Galileo Ferraris (October 30, 1847 - February 7, 1897) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, noted mostly for his studies of...
Edouard Branly

Edouard Branly

male, deceased (1940)
Eugène Édouard Désiré Branly was a French inventor and physicist. He was the Physics professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He is prim...
Lucien Gaulard

Lucien Gaulard

male, deceased (1888)
Lucien Gaulard (1850 - November 26, 1888) invented devices for the transmission of alternating current electrical energy. Gaulard was born in...
Hippolyte Pixii

Hippolyte Pixii

male, deceased (1835)
Hippolyte Pixii (1808 - 1835) was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical...
Harold P. Brown

Harold P. Brown

male
Harold Pitney Brown was the American inventor of the electric chair. He was hired by Thomas Edison to help develop the chair after he wrote an...
William Stanley Jr.

William Stanley Jr.

male, deceased (1916)
William Stanley, Jr. (November 28, 1858-May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents...

Ottó Bláthy

male, deceased (1939)
Ottó Titusz Bláthy, was a Hungarian electrical engineer. In his career, he became the co-inventor of the electric transformer, the tension re...