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...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
Thomas Davenport

Thomas Davenport

male, deceased (1851)
Thomas Davenport (b. 9 July 1802 - 6 July 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who lived in Forestdale Vermont. With his wife (Emily Davenport), and a...
William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon

male, deceased (1850)
William Sturgeon (May 22, 1783 - December 4, 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first...

Samuel O'Reilly

male
Samuel O'Reilly was a tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo gun, which he patented in 1891. O'Reilly's machine was based on...
Antonio Pacinotti

Antonio Pacinotti

male, deceased (1912)
Antonio Pacinotti (June 7 1841 - May 22 1912) was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. Pacinotti was born...

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...
Frank Julian Sprague

Frank Julian Sprague

male, deceased (1934)
Frank Julian Sprague (1857-1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric...

Emily Davenport

female
With her husband Thomas Davenport and his colleague Orange Smalley, Emily Davenport invented the electric motor and electric locomotive circa 1834....
Moritz von Jacobi

Moritz von Jacobi

male, deceased (1874)
Moritz Hermann (Boris Semyonovich) von Jacobi (September 21, 1801 - March 10, 1874) was a Prussian engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi...