- male, deceased (1929)
- Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of "Carl" is used ocassionaly, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, 1929, La...
- male, deceased (1703)
- Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both ex...
- male, deceased (1859)
- John Walker (29 May 1781 - 1 May 1859) was an English chemist from Stockton-on-Tees, who in 1826 accidentally invented the friction match by mixing...
- male, deceased (1741)
- Jethro Tull (born March 1672 in Basildon, Berkshire; died 21 February 1741 in Shalbourne, Berkshire (now Wiltshire)) was an English agricultural...
- female, deceased (2000)
- Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, was an Austrian-Jewish naturalized American actress and communications technology innovator. Though...
- male, deceased (1942)
- Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.
- male, deceased (1913)
- Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine.
- male, deceased (1971)
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first completely electronic television. In particular, he was...
- male, deceased (1937)
- Trevor was born in 1937 in London during the Blitz. At the age of 15, Trevor swam for Britain, and on leaving school, worked as a stunt man,...
- male, deceased (1901)
- Elisha Gray (August 2 1835 - January 21 1901) was an electrical engineer and is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in...
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