Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
physicist, classical mechanics, laws of motion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, celestial mechanics, sir isaac newton…inventor, inventor of calculus
Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, ma...
Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller

male, deceased (1983)
buckyballs, Solar building designer, Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, fullerene, architecture writer, human…inventor
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor. Throughout his life, Fuller was conc...
Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

male, deceased (1896)
inventor, Dynamite, Nobel Prize, Chemist, Business Person, From Stockholm
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major...

William Henry

male, deceased (1786)
Joseph Reed, John Forbes, inventor, Fort Duquesne, expedition, Braddock expedition
William Henry was an American gunsmith from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1784, 1785, and...
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

male, deceased (2008) (Sri Lanka)
science fiction writer, 2001 A Space Odyssey, writer, Essayist, science-fiction, Futurist…inventor
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel "2001: A Space...
Louis Braille

Louis Braille

male (Paris)
blind, inventor, visual impairment, visually impaired, braille, Inventor of writing systems…inventor of a writing system for the blind
This section contains free worksheets, flashcards, online activities and other educational resources to support teaching and learning about Louis...
Employment: …inventor, inventor - Braille
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
farad, electromagnetism, Electromagnetism physicist, electron, electricity, Faraday's law of induction
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
James Watt

James Watt

male, deceased (1819)
Member of the Lunar Society, steam power, University and college namesakes, from Inverclyde, steam engine, Alumni of the University of Glasgow…inventor
James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the...
Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

male, deceased (1937)
Radio pioneer, Nobel Prize in Physics, inventor, Telecommunications history, electrical engineer, Italian…Italian inventor and electrical engineer, inventor of radio, Inventor of the radio
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 Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
scientist, botany, slave, tuskegee university, slavery, American…inventor
George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...