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...
Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt

male, 54 years old (Mountain View)
Eric Emerson Schmidt, Ph.D (b. 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He...
Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

male, deceased (1937)
Guglielmo Marconi [gue:lmo mar'ko:ni] (25 April 1874 - 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph...
George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse

male, deceased (1914)
George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846-12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a...
Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush

male, deceased (1974)
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his...
Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

male, 59 years old (Los Gatos, California, United States)
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now...
Jack Kilby

Jack Kilby

male, deceased (2005)
Jack Kilby , an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas...
Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

male, deceased (2001)
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of...
Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest

male, deceased (1961)
Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak...
Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

male, deceased (1925)
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex...