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...
Joseph Swan

Joseph Swan

male, deceased (1914)
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was an English physicist and chemist, most famous for the development of the light bulb.

Henry Woodward

male
Henry Woodward was an early pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp. On July 24, 1874, he and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotelkeeper,...
William David Coolidge

William David Coolidge

male, deceased (1975)
William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873-February 3, 1975) was an American physicist. He is a native of Hudson, MA. In the early days of his...
Carl Auer von Welsbach

Carl Auer von Welsbach

male, deceased (1929)
Carl Auer Freiherr von Welsbach (9 September 1858 - 8 April 1929) was an Austrian scientist and inventor who had a talent for not only discovering...
Josh Stewart

Josh Stewart

male, 32 years old
Joshua Regnall Stewart (born February 6, 1977, Diana, West Virginia) is an American actor best known for his role as Holt McLaren in the FX TV...
Pavel Yablochkov

Pavel Yablochkov

male, deceased (1894)
Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov ( was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and...

James Hampton

male, deceased (1964)
James Hampton (April 8, 1909-November 4, 1964) was an African-American janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from...
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...

Lewi Tonks

male, deceased (1971)
Lewi Tonks (1897-1971) was an American quantum physicist noted for his discovery (with Marvin D. Girardeau) of the Tonks-Girardeau gas. Tonks was...