Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

male, deceased (1931)
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly...

Heinrich Göbel

male, deceased (1893)
Heinrich Göbel, or later: "Henry Goebel" (April 20, 1818 - December 4, 1893), born in Germany, was a precision mechanic and inventor, an early p...
James Bowman Lindsay

James Bowman Lindsay

male, deceased (1862)
James Bowman Lindsay (September 8 1799 - June 29 1862) was born in Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland and educated at St. Andrews...
Peter Cooper Hewitt

Peter Cooper Hewitt

male, deceased (1921)
Peter Cooper Hewitt (May 5, 1861 - August 25, 1921) was an American electrical engineer, who demonstrated the mercury-vapor lamp for which he...
Edmund Germer

Edmund Germer

male, deceased (1987)
Edmund Germer (August 24, 1901 - August 10, 1987) was a German inventor granted as the father of the fluorescent lamp. He applied for a patent with...
John Kruesi

John Kruesi

male, deceased (1899)
John Kruesi (May 15 1843 - February 22 1899) was a Swiss born master machinist and close associate of Thomas Edison. Kruesi had been apprenticed...
Secondo Pia

Secondo Pia

male, deceased (1941)
Secondo Pia was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin on May 28,...
Maximilian Nitze

Maximilian Nitze

male, deceased (1906)
Maximilian Carl-Friedrich Nitze was a German urologist who was born in Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and L...
Max Shulman

Max Shulman

male, deceased (1988)
Max Shulman (March 14, 1919-August 28, 1988) was a 20th century American writer best known for his television and short story character Dobie...

Carl Louis Schwendler

male
Carl Louis Schwendler (1838 - 1882) was a German electrician and one of the first proponents of the Tungsten based incandescent light bulb. He also...